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<em>““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).”</em> <strong>• Mary Marshall Clark</strong>, Columbia University</p>

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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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

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Dieter Reinisch is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Researcher at the Moore Institute and the School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway, and an Adjunct Professor in International Relations, Webster Vienna Private University. He holds a PhD in History from the European University Institute in Florence. He is the author of Learning behind bars: How IRA prisoners shaped the peace process in Ireland (2022 University of Toronto Press).

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781800739963
Publisert
2023-06-09
Utgiver
Berghahn Books; Berghahn Books
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
RES, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
206

Om bidragsyterne

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 Staël Prize for Cultural Values in 2014 and she is a member of the Scientific Committee of the House of European History, Brussels.