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Gilles Deleuze, borrowing from Maurice Blanchot's distinctive vocabulary in "The Space of Literature", offers death as the ultimate example of the event. In this paper, I propose reversing the current of concept-metaphor against a certain performance theory of sovereignty and ask, not what the concept-metaphor death does for the thought of the event, but what the concept-metaphor event does for the thought of death on the hunger strike in order to explore the divide between the space of dying and the space of politics, which are incompatibly distinct and yet inextricably linked. Revealing an irreducible anachrony between two deaths - the passage of time that separates dying as pure potentiality from death as a radically contingent event that comes either too early or too late - I argue that the political efficacy of hunger striking depends less on the consummation of death in the immediacy of an ecstatic moment than on the prolongation of this interval of time by potentially endless repetitive enactments, which imply both finality and incompletion.
This paper focuses on an ongoing project that began in 2012, entitled "The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders". This project is an attempt to reconstitute the Marcos Collection. Sourced from auction catalogues, museum archives, and scant government records, their lavish inventory of commissioned portraits, jewellery, Regency silverware, and old master paintings is reproduced as photographic installations, postcards, and three-dimensional prints. Reconstruction, in this instance, becomes a sustained democratic gesture, allowing an increasingly forgetful public to access a collection that has remained unavailable through a systemic failure by successive post-dictatorial governments to institutionalize collective acts of remembering.
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.
The essay engages with a screenplay by Michel Foucault, written in 1970 for a film, not realized during Foucault's lifetime, about Pablo Picasso's "Las Meninas", a series of 58 paintings that the artist made in 1957, taking up, updating, reinterpreting the famous painting with the same title by Diego Velázquez (1656). This screenplay is at the same time an example of critical reflection on reenactment in art history and itself a reenactment practice of sorts: the filmic repetition of an artistic repetition. It invites a reflection on the role of repetition as a critical operation: how doubles, reenacted images, and 'countermimesis' can become creative gestures and opening movements of transformation through plays of refraction, duplication, and multiplication of the realities and subjectivities at stake in them.
Tracing the complex history of the term 'reenactment', back to R.G. Collingwood's philosophy of history, on the one hand, and popular practices of war reenactments and living history museums, on the other, a survey of its current contribution in art and museum practices highlights the importance of historicity - a category the postmodern was supposed to have vacated - in a wide range of examples, from Rod Dickinson and Jeremey Deller to Alexandra Pirici, Manuel Pelmuş, and Milo Rau. Performance reenactments, in particular, are premised on performance art having become historical, but also threaten to digest history in favour of a mere productivist mobilization for the needs of current attention economies. An alternative could be the attempt to counter historical with dramatic time in order to unlock unrealized possibilities and futures, as the term preenactment promises.
Dem bemerkenswerten wissenschafts- und ästhetikgeschichtlichen Interesse an Friedrich Theodor Vischers Werk in der Gegenwart lässt sich ein weiterer Akzent hinzufügen, wenn man Vischers repräsentative Rolle sowohl im Vormärz wie im Nachmärz rekonstruiert und dabei vor allem auf seine Selbstkorrekturen und Revisionen die Aufmerksamkeit lenkt. In wissenschaftshistorischen Studien der jüngsten Zeit gewinnt die 'Historische Epistemologie' an Kontur.
In der Märchenforschung ist man lange Zeit überwiegend von einem Archetypus oder einem Grundmuster ausgegangen, um dann danach, gleichsam im zweiten Schritt, die Vielfalt historischer Erscheinungen als Varianten eines Typs aufzuzeichnen. Dieses idealtypische Vorgehen schätzt nicht nur die historische Ausprägung eines Märchens als sekundär ein, es geht prinzipiell auch von einer Hierarchie aus. Gegenüber derartigen spekulativen Annahmen ist man heute skeptisch und vorsichtig geworden.
Karikatur
(1976)
The reactivation of time
(2022)
Reappropriating, restaging, revisioning, remediating: at the crossroad of the new millennium, reenactment has undoubtedly emerged as a key issue in the field of artistic production, in theoretical discourse, and in the socio-political sphere. Taking an ever larger distance from notions of historical revival and 'Living History', current reenactments call into question whether the present can unpack, embody, or disentangle the past. Accordingly, to reenact is to experience the past by reactivating either a particular cultural heritage or unexplored utopias. If to reenact means not to restore but to challenge the past, history is thus turned into a possible and perpetual becoming, a site for invention and renewal.
Ich will versuchen, an einem Spezialfall der Ornamentästhetik zu zeigen, wie die Arabeske, damals auch Arabeskgroteske genannt, aufgrund ihrer traditionellen Disposition zu einem der bedeutendsten Grenzgänger innerhalb der klassizistischen Ästhetik wird: Sie ist hervorragend geeignet zum autonomen Spiel. Daher avanciert sie auf der einen Seite zum Favorit klassizistischer Ornamentästhetik, gefährdet aber auf der anderen Seite durch die ihr eigene, unbändige Einbildungskraft beständig den Ordnungsgedanken des Klassizismus. Die Arabeske als Grenze einer Grenzziehungskunst scheint mir geeignet, die Spielregeln klassizistischer Ästhetik und die Notwendigkeit oder wenigstens Möglichkeit des Übertritts zur Romantik plausibel zu machen.