TY  - CHAP
A1  - Gentric, Katja
T1  - 'Interrupting the present' : political and artistic forms of reenactments in South Africa
T2  - Over and over and over again : reenactment strategies in contemporary arts and theory / ed. by Cristina Baldacci, Clio Nicastro, and Arianna Sforzini ; Cultural Inquiry ; 21
N2  - A sense of repetition pervades contemporary South African political and cultural debate. Several recent studies have drawn attention to the fact that the renewed student protests since March 2015 parallel several features of the resistance and liberation movements of the 1970s and 1980s. At a pivotal position between the two moments of political struggle stands the 'miracle' of the peaceful transition in 1994. Within this set of circumstances a group of curators, artists, and writers, Gabi Ngcobo and Kemang Wa Lehulere, amongst others, formed a collective under the name CHR (Center for Historical Reenactments) in Johannesburg in 2010. The CHR has pursued several questions that interrogate the complexity of a shared memory bridging segregated Apartheid legacy: how do readings of the past inform contemporary urgencies, and what are the political potentials of artistic interpretations of histories? How do they participate in the formation of new subjectivities?
KW  - Center for Historical Reenactments
KW  - Südafrika. Truth and Reconciliation Commission
KW  - Performance <Künste>
KW  - Reenactment
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/67769
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-677695
UR  - https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-21/gentric_interrupting-the-present.pdf
SN  - 978-3-96558-029-9
SN  - 978-3-96558-028-2
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 58
EP  - 67
PB  - ICI Press
CY  - Berlin
ER  -