Over and Over and Over Again

Over the last twenty years, reenactment has been appropriated by both contemporary artistic production and art-theoretical discourse, becoming a distinctive strategy to engage with history and memory. As a critical act of repetition, which is never neutral in reactualizing the past, it has established unconventional modes of historicization and narration. Collecting work by artists, scholars, curators, and museum administrators, the volume investigates reenactment's potential for a (re)activation of layered temporal experiences, and its value as an ongoing interpretative and political gesture performed in the present with an eye to the future. Its contributions discuss the mobilization of archives in the struggle for inclusiveness and cultural revisionism; the role of the body in the presentification and rehabilitation of past events and (impermanent) objects; the question of authenticity and originality in artistic practice, art history, as well as in museum collections and conservation practices.

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The Reactivation of Time / Cristina Baldacci, Clio Nicastro, Arianna Sforzini From Re- to Pre- and Back Again / Sven Lütticken The Reenacted Double / Arianna Sforzini 'The Reconstruction of the Past is the Task of Historians and not Agents' / Kata Krasznahorkai The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders / Pio Abad Resounding Difficult Histories / Juliana Hodkinson 'Interrupting the Present' / Katja Gentric Archival Diffractions / Giulia Damiani Archival Reenactement and the Role of Fiction / Roberta Agnese Unintentional Reenactments / Clio Nicastro Everyday Aesthetics and the Practice of Historical Reenactment / Ulrike Wagner Speculative Writing / Pablo Gonçalo Reenactment in Theatre / Daniela Sacco Re-search, Re-enactment, Re-design, Re-programmed Art / Serena Cangiano, Davide Fornari, Azalea Seratoni In the Beginning There Is an End / Malin Arnell Performance Art in the 1990s and the Generation Gap / Pierre Saurisse Re-Presenting Art History / Cristina Baldacci Reconciling Authenticity and Reenactment / Amy Brost UNFOLD / Gaby Wijers Unfold Nan Hoover / Vera Sofia Mota, Fransien van der Putt Living Simulacrum / Joanna Kiliszek 'Repetition: Summer Display 1983' at Van Abbemuseum / Michela Alessandrini 'Political-Timing-Specific' Performance Art in the Realm of the Museum / Hélia Marçal, Daniela Salazar 'We Are Gathering Experience' / Alethea Rockwell