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Re-enactment
Fall 2013
The widespread occurence of rerun, repetition, revival, recycling, reconstruction, and other words prefixed by re liberally called upon in artistic discourse has propelled esse arts + opinions to question the specific meaning and critical import of practices that fall within the scope of "re-enactment".
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The Lure of Re-enactment and the Inauthentic Status of the Event
Re-enactment: False Evidence and Dangers
The Case for Art – Legal Re-enactment In Christian Patterson’s Redheaded Peckerwood
Re-enactments versus Re-enactments: European Artists Tackle Populist Aesthetics
A unique experience of re-enactment: DRAGOONED by Sandy Amerio
Living and dead bodies. Performing Ceauşescu, 1978-2007
Continuity Error: Mediatized Re-Enactment in the Work of Kerry Tribe
Remaking the Work
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Plastics
Winter 2025
Analyzing plastic in the field of art runs the risk of raising many environmental dilemmas. Far from extolling plastic yet without denying its utility, this issue is interested in our ways of coexisting with synthetic material in order to evaluate the consequences and seek alternative solutions and to claim a kinship with what gives this material its glory: its plasticity, which expresses the power both to receive and to give form.
Cover: Dan Lam
Nibble, 2020.
Photo: courtesy of Dan Lam Studio, Dallas