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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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Current Issue
Family
Winter 2023
As the basis for social organization and the primary site of socialization, the family has drawn particular attention in the visual arts since the inception of art history. As contemporary art seems well engaged in an examination of cultural practices, the family, in all its forms, is returning to the spotlight. Many artists today revisit family traditions, sites, and taboos, challenge what has been held as unspeakable by digging into archives, and invent new, intimate forms of sociability out of biographical experiences. This issue reflects on family histories as they are rewritten in contemporary art.