Art and the Performance of Memory

Art and the Performance of Memory

Author: Richard Cándida Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-08-29

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1134471149

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This book investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. The essays highlight the role of oral history in the documentation of the visual and performing arts.


Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

Author: Liedeke Plate

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0415811406

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This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. Here authors combine a methodological focus on memory as performance with a theoretical focus on art and popular culture as practices of remembrance. The essays in the book thus analyze what is at stake in the complex processes of remembering and forgetting, of recollecting and disremembering, of amnesia and anamnesis, that make up cultural memory.


The Memory Arts

The Memory Arts

Author: Sarah Trustman

Publisher:

Published: 2018-03-02

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 9780578477961

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The Memory Arts is our most beautiful book to date. Full-color, with pictures on every page, this book details the simple, secret formula that will allow you to remember things better. This system, based on all the great pillars of mnemonics, was developed by husband and wife superteam Sarah and David Trustman. Apply the system to magic or everyday life. The choice is yours!


The Sentient Archive

The Sentient Archive

Author: Bill Bissell

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2018-06-26

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0819577766

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The Sentient Archive gathers the work of scholars and practitioners in dance, performance, science, and the visual arts. Its twenty-eight rich and challenging essays cross boundaries within and between disciplines, and illustrate how the body serves as a repository for knowledge. Contributors include Nancy Goldner, Marcia B. Siegel, Jenn Joy, Alain Platel, Catherine J. Stevens, Meg Stuart, André Lepecki, Ralph Lemon, and other notable scholars and artists. Hardcover is un-jacketed.


Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts

Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts

Author: Des O'Rawe

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2016-08-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781137439543

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Drawing on a range of cities and conflicts from Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the collection explores the post-conflict condition as it is lived and expressed in modern cities such as Berlin, Belfast, Bilbao, Beirut, Derry, Skopje, Sarajevo, Tunis, Johannesburg and Harare. Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts: Cities of Memory investigates how the memory of conflict can be inscribed in historical monuments, human bodies and hermeneutic acts of mapping, traversing, representing, and performing the city. Several essays explore the relations between memory, history and urban space; where memory is located and how it is narrated, as well as various aspects of embodied memory; testimonial memory; traumatic memory; counter-memory; false memory; post-memory. Other essays examine the representations of post-war cities and how cultural imaginations relate to the politics of reconstruction in places devastated by protracted urban warfare. Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts: Cities of Memory offers a comparative survey of the complex and often controversial encounters between public art, political memory and commemoration in divided societies, as well as offering insights into the political and ethical difficulties of balancing the dynamics of forgetting and remembering.


Memory

Memory

Author: Ian Farr

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9780262517768

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This anthology investigates the turn in art not only towards archives and histories, the relics of modernities past, but toward the phenomena, in themselves, of "haunting" and the activation of memory. It looks at a wide array of artistic relationships to memory association, repetition and reappearance, as well as forms of "active" forgetting. Its discussions encompass artworks from the late 1940s onward, ranging from reperformances such as Marina Abramovi's Seven Easy Pieces (embodied resurrections of decades-removed performance pieces by her contemporaries) to the inanimate trace of "memory" Robert Morris assigns to his free-form felt pieces, which "forget" in their present configurations their previous slides and falls. Contextualizing memory's role in visual theory and aesthetic politics--from Marcel Proust's optics to Bernard Stiegler's analysis of memory's "industrialization"--this collection also surveys the diversity of situations and registers in which contemporary artists explore memory. Art that engages with memory embodied in material and spatial conditions is examined beside works that reflect upon memory's effects through time, and yet others that enlist the agency of remembrance or forgetting to work through aspects of the numerous pasts by which the present is always haunted.


The Archive and the Repertoire

The Archive and the Repertoire

Author: Diana Taylor

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2003-09-12

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0822385317

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In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. Taylor reveals how the repertoire of embodied memory—conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances—offers alternative perspectives to those derived from the written archive and is particularly useful to a reconsideration of historical processes of transnational contact. The Archive and the Repertoire invites a remapping of the Americas based on traditions of embodied practice. Examining various genres of performance including demonstrations by the children of the disappeared in Argentina, the Peruvian theatre group Yuyachkani, and televised astrological readings by Univision personality Walter Mercado, Taylor explores how the archive and the repertoire work together to make political claims, transmit traumatic memory, and forge a new sense of cultural identity. Through her consideration of performances such as Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s show Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit . . . , Taylor illuminates how scenarios of discovery and conquest haunt the Americas, trapping even those who attempt to dismantle them. Meditating on events like those of September 11, 2001 and media representations of them, she examines both the crucial role of performance in contemporary culture and her own role as witness to and participant in hemispheric dramas. The Archive and the Repertoire is a compelling demonstration of the many ways that the study of performance enables a deeper understanding of the past and present, of ourselves and others.


Infinite Record

Infinite Record

Author: Karmenlara Ely

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781936767410

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"An international artistic research project initiated by the [stfold University College/Norwegian Theatre Academy, Norway in cooperation with York St John University, UK, Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel, Germany and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US"--Colophon.


Memory

Memory

Author: Mary Nooter Roberts

Publisher: Prestel Publishing

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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...In conjunction with an exhibition ... presented by the Museum for African Art, New York (2 february - 8 september 1996)