ABSTRACT

This book investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. Expanding upon longstanding concerns in cultural history about the relation of text and image, the book highlights the distinction between enactive and cognitive memory and the implications of this for artists and their publics.

chapter 1|12 pages

INTRODUCTION

Performing the archive

chapter 2|24 pages

RESONATING TESTIMONIES FROM/IN THE SPACE OF DEATH

Performing Buenaventura’s La maestra

chapter 3|26 pages

TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES

Art in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

chapter 4|22 pages

PRECARIOUS BOUNDARIES

Affect, mise-en-scène, and the senses

chapter 5|16 pages

Stratum and resonance: displacement in the work of ELVAN ZABUNYAN

Displacement in the work of Renée Green

chapter 6|19 pages

CITIES MEMORY VOICES COLLAGE

chapter 7|36 pages

EROS IN THE STUDIO

chapter 8|25 pages

MUSCLE MEMORY

Performing embodied knowledge

chapter 9|21 pages

“HOPE . . . TEACH, YAKNOWHATI’MSAYIN”

Freestylin knowledge through Detroit hiphop

chapter 10|13 pages

LES GAMMES

Making visible the representative modern man

chapter 11|19 pages

COMPOSITE PAST

Photography and family memories in Brazil (1850–1950)

chapter 12|16 pages

MEMORIES OF MAMMY

chapter 13|16 pages

Official art, official publics: public sculpture under the Federal Art-in-Architecture Program since1972

Public sculpture under the Federal Art-in-Architecture Program since 1972

chapter 14|18 pages

Private reflections/public matters

Public art in the city