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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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Tourism
Spring Summer 2024
Because it is essential for it to be open to the world, art is particularly affected by concerns related to planetary travel. From a position at the intersection of contemporary art, leisure, ecology, and destination culture, Esse no. 111 observes artists’ and critical thinkers’ strategies for revisiting the very notion of tourism. Although the harmful impacts of the tourism industry are beyond question, the thematic section avoids falling prey to tourismphobia and simply pointing out its failures. Rather, this issue offers a guided tour of situations and places where art and tourism converge.