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Hi All,
Here's another interesting take on the genre of
"re-performance." Actually, I wonder if this mode of
engaging with past performances or, in this case,
past art works, may also be described as
"interactive art?" That's what the artist below, a
woman named Jemima Stelhi, calls her embodied
engagement with a 1969 sculpture by Larry Bell.
She's "interested in being placed in history at the
moment you exhibit."
But perhaps there are major differences between
trying to "re-perform" someone else's past
performance, and trying to "interact" with someone
else's sculpture? Anyhow, I do not know, but the
project sounds kind of cool.
"Push Me Pull You," by James Westcott
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/pages/nyam_document.php?nid=749
Laura, have you thought of trying to "re-do" or
"interact" with a past performance of torture in the
present tense? That might be an interesting exercise
in itself, and might generate some new ways of
thinking about tortured bodies and how/what they
signify at different cultural moments.
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