Description
Book Synopsis Through a post-1968 perspective on the past 50 years, Performing Memory brings together case studies on new developments in the relationship between politics and visual representation—including the histories of dance, theatre, political performance and cinema—and investigates how they relate to the interlinked concepts of visuality, corporeality and mobility. Using a collective transdisciplinary attitude from within historical disciplines, and looking across to artistic fields, this volume demonstrates that memory is not merely a recollection of experience but an interactive process, in which the body, mobile and constrained, is both a point of departure and reference.
Trade Review ““This is an excellent collection of writings on the performance of cultural memory since 1968, in varied European and North Atlantic contexts…Based on Passerini’s extensive work on cultural memory, subjectivity and visuality, this volume extends the frame of cultural work into historical conflicts, erasures and negative constraints against performativity when bodies are trapped in conflicts, in prisons, and corporeality prevents the full expression of memory (Reinisch).” • Mary Marshall Clark, Columbia University
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Luisa Passerini & Dieter Reinisch
Part I: Body in Movement/Body in Constrain
Chapter 1. Bodily Ways of Knowing and Remembering: Movement, Kinaesthesia, and Mobility
Marina Nordera
Chapter 2. Corporeality and Militant Performance during Northern Irish Prisons Protests, 1971-1983
Dieter Reinisch
Part II: Spectacle and Activism
Chapter 3. Soviet Media Spectacle: Visuality, Corporeality, and Identity in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
Bohdan Shumylovych
Chapter 4. Bartering and Cross-Border Embodied Performances
Annelies Kuhlmann
Chapter 5. The Filmmaker as Saboteur: Found Footage and Détournement in Llorenç Soler’s Militant Films
Pablo La Parra Pérez:
Part III: Reports from the Field
Chapter 6. A Letter to the Future: Autumn Knight's WALL (2014) and the Studio Museum in Harlem
Cori Olinghouse
Chapter 7. Philadelphia Immigration Stories: Making the Aural Visual
Janneken Smucker
Afterword
Alexander Etkind
Bibliography
Index
