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About This Book
This book brings together dance and visual arts scholars to investigate the key methodological and theoretical issues concerning reenactment. Along with becoming an effective and widespread contemporary artistic strategy, reenactment is taking shape as a new anti-positivist approach to the history of dance and art, undermining the notion of linear time and suggesting new temporal encounters between past, present, and future. As such, reenactment has contributed to a move towards different forms of historical thinking and understanding that embrace cultural studies – especially intertwining gender, postcolonial, and environmental issues – in the redefinition of knowledge, historical discourses, and memory. This approach also involves questioning canons and genealogies by destabilising authorship and challenging both institutional and direct forms of transmission.
The structure of the book playfully recalls that of a theatrical performance, with both an overture and prelude, to provide space for a series of theoretical and practice-based insights – the solos – and conversations – the duets – by artists, critics, curators, and theorists who have dealt with reenactment. The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate how reenactment as a strategy of appropriation, circulation, translation, and transmission can contribute to understanding history both in its perpetual becoming and as a process of reinvention, renarration, and resignification from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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- OUVERTURE
- UNFOLD: Dan Graham’s Audience/Performer/MirrorReenacted
- (Re)Making Dance History Together: Working Towardsa Collaborative Historiography of Dance
- Watching Dances from the Past:Considering Performance Analysis in the Realm ofReenactments
- Five Conceptual Actions for a Sensitive Archaeology ofthe Gesture in Dominique Brun’s Sacre#2
- The Matter of Reenactment: A Materialist Inquiryinto Cambodia’s Contemporary Monumental
- Under the Sign of Reenactment
- The Archives of La Biennale di Venezia as the SeventhMuse: Revisiting (Art) History
- Witnessing Versus Belatedness: Representation,Reconstruction, and Reenactment
- Reenacting Human-Algorithm Relations: ComputationalArt Between Today and Yesterday
- Has Reenactment Reached an End?
- Postcolonial Swings of Memory: The Center for HistoricalReenactments as a Starting Point
- Time Seems Pliable: Historical Strategies of Narration,Preservation, and Transmission
- Notes on the Contributors