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In this fifteen-minute lecture-performance, Malin Arnell presents her dialogue with the work of French-Italian artist Gina Pane (1939–1990). Oriented around textual and visual traces of Pane and Arnell's historical intra-action, this ongoing dialogue explores performance art documentation and historical narratives. The project interrogates the operations of archives, asking: 'How do queer feminist performance archives make you vulnerable, how do they make you feel, act, react?' 'Whose bodies remain present, and which bodies are lost?' The framework of the work - its repetition with variations and its artistic and queer feminist methodologies - enables an exploration of history, documentation, and bodily epistemology as an attempt to take responsibility for what is not known by doing, through action - through performance.
By distancing it from historical revival (i.e., 'Living History'), reenactment is here understood as artistic strategy as well as curatorial practice, and therefore as critical method. As artistic strategy it implies the reactivation (over time) and remediation (on different supports) of images stemming from a vast visual repertoire that artists - especially those working with time-based media (film, video, performance) - appropriate in order to give them new meanings. As curatorial practice and critical method, reenactment regards the remaking of impermanent artworks and the restaging of temporary exhibitions to possibly offer an understanding of (art) history that gives preference to a visual and performative, sometimes immersive, approach.
Locating authenticity in artworks that are remade (all or in part) or re-performed over time presents a unique challenge for art conservators, whose activities have traditionally been oriented toward caring for the material aspects of art objects. The paper offers a brief overview of perspectives on authenticity and discusses various theoretical models that have been developed to conceptualize how media, installation, and performance artworks are displayed and cared for over time. These include the score/performance model, the concepts of autographicity and allographicity, the concept of iteration, and authenticity as a practice. The author proposes a theoretical model based on the ritual aspects of presenting artworks, arguing that authenticity, repetition, and community participation can be reconciled within a ritual context.
In the reactivation of the feminist collective of artists Le Nemesiache, this paper looks at the tension between rhetoric and translation in relation to the dislocation of archival materials from their situatedness in place (Naples) and time (1970 to the present). Translation emerges as the conveyor of the conditions from which the addresser started, as well as the ones of the addressees, as a potential that takes place in the moment of enunciation through a plurality of subjects. Considering the epistemological tension between history and fiction, as well as the mediation that happens through the body and the different subjectivities triggered by intra-action, this essay will engage with the following question: if the archive is the memory, can dramaturgy and reenactment from the archive become the message of a prophecy?
Seit den Debatten um ein "postdramatisches Theater" (Lehmann, 1999; vgl. Poschmann, 1997) wird dem "dramatischen", oder besser gesagt, dem literarischen Theater seitens der Theaterwissenschaft nur mehr wenig Beachtung geschenkt. Zu dominant ist die Stellung des performative turn im aktuellen kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskurs, zu vielfältig sind die Ansatzpunkte, um der "Theatralität" der verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Sphären nachzuspüren (vgl. Fischer-Lichte, 2001), und zu eindeutig ist das Theater selbst auf ein unendliches Experimentieren mit nicht-literarischen Formen ausgerichtet. Vom 'konventionellen' literarischen Theater wendet man sich ab, da eine Beschäftigung mit ihm wenig mehr als eine Wiederholung des bereits Bekannten zu versprechen scheint. So produktiv und unhintergehbar der Paradigmenwechsel in den letzten beiden Dezennien zweifellos auch ist, so bleibt gegen die versiegende Aufmerksamkeit gegenüber dem literarischen oder dramatischen Theater indes einzuwenden, dass Gegenstände an sich nicht veralten. Vielmehr rekonstituieren sie sich im Rahmen der sich vollziehenden Diskursverschiebungen. Lohnend scheint es mir daher zu sein, das literarische Theater im Horizont neuerer mediologischer Debatten zu perspektivieren. Wenn etwa der Soziologe Dirk Baecker in einem "Medientheater" überschriebenen Essay aus seinen Studien zur nächsten Gesellschaft auf das Theater im Umbruch von der modernen buchgestützten zur "nächsten" computergestützten Gesellschaft zu sprechen kommt (vgl. Baecker, 2007), so wird mit dem Stichwort des "Medientheaters", das Baecker als ein Theater versteht, in dem "die Medien mit zur Aufführung kommen" (Baecker, 2007: 83-84), ein Rahmen gesetzt, der auch für eine Neuperspektivierung des Theaters jener nach Baecker im Absterben begriffenen Gesellschaft der "Gutenberg-Galaxis" (vgl. McLuhan, 1968) produktiv ist. Ich werde daher im Folgenden versuchen, den Umstrukturierungsprozess, den das Theater im Umbruch von der vormodernen zur modernen Gesellschaft durchlaufen hat, in mediologischer Perspektive zu rekonstruieren.
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?
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.
The Neoplastic Room at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź was originally designed in 1948 by the avant-garde artist Władysław Strzemiński. Destroyed in 1950 and reconstructed in 1960, it became the focal point of the museum, with the 'International Collection of Modern Art' by the a.r. group being exhibited there. At the same time, it became a point of reference for contemporary artists and a strategy for building a permanent collection for the museum, as well as a reflection on how the past can give a vision of the future. This essay focuses on the gesture of 're-curating' the Neoplastic Room in relation to the performative practice of the artists involved (e.g., Daniel Buren, Elżbieta Jabłońska).
The paper engages with the works of Thomas Kling (1957-2005) and elaborates on the specific incorporation of history in Klings poetics. Kling was both known for his wild style of lyrical performance as well as for his vast knowledge of history. Kling aptly puts the style of his lectures in the tradition of the "histrion", the actor in ancient Rome. The paper argues that the connection of history and the theatricality of the histrion becomes fundamental to his poetics. History is for Kling a material that combines linguistic, cultural and literary references that need a performative elaboration. The paper traces this constellation of performativity and history within Klings early poems and essays. It then turns towards a reading of his poems "Manhattan Mundraum" and "Manhattan Mundraum Zwei". In these poems Kling intertwines the performative aspects of his poetics with an inquiry into the history that has shaped the island of Manhattan and the language of its "Mundraum".
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.