ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an artist-activist's engagement with one of her works: Kristina Norman's 'Bronze Soldier' monument in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The statue was erected in the city centre in 1947 as part of a memorial to Soviet soldiers. In April 2007, the Estonian government had the statue moved to a less prominent location in a cemetery, a decision that led to riots which lasted for two nights. Norman's work addresses the values and traditions associated with the statue and the conflict which led to the removal of the monument. The chapter maps the social and political conditions of the context for the central unit of the project: the public intervention. The intervention proved to have a deterritorializing effect, as it highlighted collective fears that govern society. The case of the Bronze Soldier outlined the power relations established in the society of the newly independent Estonia.
