Time Seems Pliable: Historical Strategies of Narration, Preservation, and Transmission

The dialogue between Susanne Franco and Sven Lütticken, is axed around the complex and charged landscape of reenactment and the necessity to introduce new orientation tools starting from the nomenclatures. Franco and Lütticken propose the terms pre-enactment and post-archive to describe the artistic objects such as scores or choreographies able to anticipate and/or prefigure the performance itself. This anticipation can also precede something that has not happened yet in history but is already achieved through dance. The two scholars also argue that it is possible to use the pure concept of “enactment” to allude to the staging alone, and do not exclude the possibility of replacing, adding, or mixing as many prefixes as the perspectives the concept of reenactment allows.