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The Atlas Group created a digital mixed-media archive of contemporary Lebanese history, made up of produced and found documents. These archives look immediately ambiguous: they don’t collect historical documents; they actually contain visual artefacts created by the Lebanese artist Walid Raad. These digital mixed-media archives — partly accessible on the web but also physically exhibited and performed — are not intended to preserve the memory of the past, but they become indeed useful to actualize history by giving it back in the form of a historical fiction. What if archives should not deal with memory, but with amnesia? And what kind of historical temporality do they re-activate?
Part of Over and Over and Over Again Containing:
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
Insistence / Özge Serin
‘Interrupting the Present’ / Katja Gentric
Resounding Difficult Histories / Juliana Hodkinson
Archival Diffractions / Giulia Damiani
Archival Reenactement and the Role of Fiction
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
Title
Archival Reenactement and the Role of Fiction
Subtitle
Walid Raad and the Atlas Group Archive
Author(s)
Roberta Agnese
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-21_10
DOI Target
https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-21/agnese_archival-reenactment.html
HTML Page
https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-21/agnese_archival-reenactment.html
Description
The Atlas Group created a digital mixed-media archive of contemporary Lebanese history, made up of produced and found documents. These archives look immediately ambiguous: they don’t collect historical documents; they actually contain visual artefacts created by the Lebanese artist Walid Raad. These digital mixed-media archives — partly accessible on the web but also physically exhibited and performed — are not intended to preserve the memory of the past, but they become indeed useful to actualize history by giving it back in the form of a historical fiction. What if archives should not deal with memory, but with amnesia? And what kind of historical temporality do they re-activate?
Is Part Of
Over and Over and Over Again
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
January 4, 2022
Subject
Atlas Group
Archive
History
Memory
Photography
Rights
© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Harvested
yes
Language
en-GB
short title
Archival Reenactment
page start
91
page end
98
Source
Over and Over and Over Again: Reenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory, ed. by Cristina Baldacci, Clio Nicastro, and Arianna Sforzini, Cultural Inquiry, 21 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 91–98