Represencing Performance, Dance, and Visual Art

This book brings together scholars and curators from the visual arts and dance studies to investigate the methodological and theoretical issues related to the act of reenacting impermanent or unfinished artworks, pivotal or unrealized exhibitions, choreographies and gestures, and inaccessible, noninclusive or forgotten archives, which are to be put into question in the present. Reenactment is taking shape as a new anti-positivist approach to the history of dance and art, which undermines the notion of linear time, suggesting new temporal encounters between past, present and future. It also has contributed to a move towards different forms of historical thinking and understanding that embrace cultural studies intertwining gender, postcolonial, and environmental issues – in the redefinition of knowledge, historical discourses and memory.