'Political-timing-specific' performance art in the realm of the museum : the potential of reenactment as practice of memorialization
- Can reenactments be a way to create counter-narratives in and for the museum? Through the analysis of political performance (or what the artist Tania Bruguera calls 'political-timing-specific' artworks), this essay discusses the potential of reenactment as both a practice of materializing memories and narratives of oppression and of rethinking museum policies in terms of preservation and display. Its main argument is that, while the archive can be regarded as a form of materializing the memory of these works, reenactment is more than a way of recovering the past; it is also a device for reconstructing memories of activism and oppression. This essay further suggests that reenactments of political-timing-specific works demand a change in accessioning, conservation, and presentation practices, which might be inclined to erase decentralized art-historical and material narratives.
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| Author: | Hélia Marçal, Daniela Salazar |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-678558 |
| URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-21/maral-salazar_political-timing-specific-performance-art.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-21_24 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-029-9 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-028-2 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | 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 |
| Publisher: | ICI Press |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/04/25 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2022/05/16 |
| Tag: | Activism; Memory; Political-timing-specific art |
| GND Keyword: | Politische Kunst; Aktivismus; Performance <Künste>; Reenactment; Gedächtnis; Museum |
| Page Number: | 16 |
| First Page: | 240 |
| Last Page: | 254 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 496556525 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 790 Freizeitgestaltung, darstellende Künste, Sport |
| 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |
