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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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Abstractions
Spring Summer 2025
Yet what about abstraction today? Long confined to formalist and self-referential imperatives, abstraction has gradually freed itself from the modernism yolk to recapture its evocative power. This issue proposes to turn away from the dogma of Abstraction as a historical genre to consider its various plastic and semantic avenues. In this invitation to explore abstractions, we wish to re-establish a dialogue between content and form, between the political and the poetic, by engaging with works that evoke reality differently. Whether they are qualified as abstract, non-figurative, or non-objective, these works certainly tell us stories.