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The reactivation of Rudi Fuchs' 1983 exhibition 'Summer Display' took place in 2009 as part of the collection series, 'Play van Abbe part 1: The Game and the Players', and was entitled 'Repetition: Summer Display 1983'. The reconstruction questioned the codes and systems used within (but also consciously and unconsciously outside) the museum and raised several questions, including: what story did the original composers want to tell, and how can this piece of history be understood today? Is the new presentation a separate exhibition entirely or a copy of the 'original' one? What is then the difference between the idea of copy, repetition, and reenactment? And what is the role of the museum's archive in the process of restaging? What can curatorial institutional archives tell us about the museum itself?
This article investigates and proposes the concept of speculative writing, which is a disruptive sort of dramaturgy mediated by artificial intelligence. What are the kinds of events created by speculative writing? What might its history and genealogy be? What might the duration of an alphanumeric reenactment be? Guided by these questions, the article details its search for speculative writing in unfilmed script history as well as in premediation events. According to these concepts, this essay concludes that speculative writing will enact potential, abstract, and premediated events, which have never become material media.
The Atlas Group created a digital mixed-media archive of contemporary Lebanese history, made up of produced and found documents. These archives look immediately ambiguous: they don't collect historical documents; they actually contain visual artefacts created by the Lebanese artist Walid Raad. These digital mixed-media archives - partly accessible on the web but also physically exhibited and performed - are not intended to preserve the memory of the past, but they become indeed useful to actualize history by giving it back in the form of a historical fiction. What if archives should not deal with memory, but with amnesia? And what kind of historical temporality do they re-activate?
State security archives in Eastern Europe are shedding new light on the operative practices of the secret services and their interaction with performance art. Surveillance, tracking, undermining, disruption, writing of reports, and measure plans were different operative methods to be carried out in continuous repetitive processes. This paper argues that, through these repetitive working processes, state security agencies were permanently engaged in different forms of reenactments: of orders, legends, report writing, and inventing measure plans. With this operative reenactment, state security agencies not only tried to track down facts but also created 'fake facts' serving their agenda. These 'fake-facts' were then again repeated and reenacted by informants endlessly to be 'effective' in the surveillance and elimination of performance art.
Der Beitrag befasst sich anhand von künstlerischen Arbeiten von Bettina Malcomess mit prekären Sichtbarkeiten und instabilen Narrativen im audiovisuellen Post-Apartheid-Archiv. Dabei werden das Nachwirken von Imperialismus und Apartheid in Südafrika und Strategien der Dekolonialisierung in künstlerischen Praktiken thematisiert.
What is the effect of weathering in a confined space? What if this space is the bathroom of the famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo? Writer Mario Bellatin and photographer Graciela Iturbide venture into this once intimate room and through a series of artistic interventions breathe new life into it. The logic of the archive is their guiding principle: in order to preserve what has been locked away and stored, it must be exposed and put to new uses.
Filippo Trentin's essay 'Warburg's Ghost: On Literary Atlases and the "Anatopic" Shift of a Cartographic Object' analyses the atlas as a method of assemblage in literary theory. It takes issue with the use of cartography advocated by proponents of a 'spatial turn' within literary studies, including Malcolm Bradbury's "Atlas of Literature", Franco Moretti's "Atlas of European Literature", and Sergio Luzzatto and Gabriele Pedullà's "Atlante della letteratura italiana". While these atlases claim to dismantle the normative canon of historicism and to offer a different way of gathering knowledge, Trentin argues that they often risk reproducing analogous positivistic, hierarchical, and colonizing assumptions. Showing a totalizing attitude embedded in modern atlases and in the 'cartographic reason' emerging from the sixteenth century onwards, the essay proposes a speculative and heuristic use of the term 'anatopy' that aims to capture the disorienting potentialities that are intrinsic to non-cartographic explorations of space. In particular, it interprets Aby Warburg's "Bilderatlas Mnemosyne" as an 'anatopic' object that keeps troubling any purely cartographic use of the atlas. In Trentin's reading, by theorizing an anti-foundational (and anti-identitarian) method of knowledge organization based on the morphological affect between disparate images and objects, Warburg's project leads to the profanation of the atlas as a topographical machine and, with its recurrences, intervals, and voids, destitutes its traditional apparatus of power. This disparate and anti-holistic aesthetic disposition challenges the solid foundations of the constructions of historicism and cartographic reason. It breaks up the technical explanation of cause and effect and substitutes it with a 'danced causality', which Trentin relates to Leo Bersani's idea of 'aesthetic subject' and the possibility of moving beyond an immobile and filial principle of identity formation towards a virtual and impersonal one that is located beyond the 'ego', as well as beyond the rigid borders of cartographic reason and the linearity of positivistic historicism.
Konzepte digitaler (Re-)Präsentationen von Literatur zwischen Pluralisierung und Standardisierung
(2019)
Der Untertitel meines Textes spielt offensichtlich mit einer Phrase Martin Heideggers, die häufig verkürzt wie eine simple sprachliche Gleichung formuliert wird: Herkunft = Zukunft. Der "Primat der Zukunft", die Akzentuierung des herzustellenden Werks, welche die Vergangenheit der kommenden Zeit unterwirft, ist eine rhetorische und epistemische Figur, die ich einerseits aus spezifisch medienarchäologischer Sicht kommentieren, anderseits mit einem Erweiterungsangebot bedenken möchte, das auf aktuelle kulturtechnische Sachverhalte reagiert. Die Unterwerfung des gerade Vergangenen unter die Anforderungen des Künftigen als eine Geste gleichsam ökologischer Verkoppelung. Kulturproduktion im Energiesparmodus: Die Avantgarde – wenn man diesen Begriff noch verwenden darf – wird durch die Nutzbarmachung und schöpferische Neuinterpretation der vergangenen Gegenwarten brisant und mitunter brillant, wenn sie den Transformationsprozess in ästhetisch überzeugender Manier zu schaffen in der Lage ist. Ich diskutiere das Thema in vier Abschnitten: zwei Hinführungen über einen Umweg, einem exemplarischen Mittelteil und einer vorsichtig verallgemeinernden Bewegung als Ausgang, die keinesfalls als letztes Wort in unserem Kontext begriffen werden möchte, sondern als Beginn einer Diskussion.
Aus einer grammatologischen Betrachtungsweise – und das heißt mit Jacques Derrida: aus dem Blickwinkel jener Spuren, die dem Bestehenden vorausgehen – verändert sich das Bild des Archivs. Von der Institution zur Bewahrung von 'Archivgut', dem Zentralbegriff der Archivalienkunde, verlagert sich der Blick auf das Zustandekommen des Archivs und die Metamorphose von Dokumenten zu Archivgut. Es geht dann weniger um den Ort inventarisierter Archivalien beziehungsweise geordneter Einheiten von Dokumenten, Textkorpora und anderen Medien des Wissens als um diejenigen Verfahren und Regelungen, durch die Zeugnisse und Hinterlassenschaften ins Archiv eingehen – oder eben gerade nicht ihren Weg dorthin finden. Denn, so Derrida: "Die Bewegung der Spur ist notwendig verborgen, sie entsteht als Verbergung ihrer selbst." Archive werden gemeinhin als institutionalisiertes, positives Gedächtnis eines Gemeinwesens oder eines speziellen Wissensgebiets betrachtet, das auf einer systematischen Erhaltung, Erfassung und Erschließung von Dokumenten basiert, die mithilfe von Signaturen und Registern für die Nutzung zugänglich gemacht werden. Auf der Benutzeroberfläche erscheint das Archiv als geordnetes, auf Einheit und potentielle Vollständigkeit ausgerichtetes Inventar, während dessen Genese doch zumeist im Dunkeln bleibt – gleichsam vor dem Archiv.