Overview

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.

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Author:   Luisa Passerini ,  Dieter Reinisch
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781800739963

ISBN 10:   1800739966
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   09 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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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 Detournement in Llorenc Soler's Militant Films Pablo La Parra Perez: 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

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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

Author Information

Luisa Passerini is Professor Emerita at the European University Institute, Florence, and was Principal Investigator of the European Research Council Project 'Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond' 2013-2018. She received the first All European Academies Madame de Stael Prize for Cultural Values in 2014 and she is a member of the Scientific Committee of the House of European History, Brussels.

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