Description
Appearing at the end of the year 2000, in an era that many cultural commentators have characterized as suffering from a pervasive amnesia, the issue will reflect on the use of performance as a means for cultures across the world to define themselves. It will explore the impact of the forces of memory on performance in culture, examining the implications of these forces for the ways in which we resolve the past, foresee the future and construct our individual and national identities. In this context, the issue will question how the dynamics of memory, remembrance and forgetting relate to the aesthetics of performance.
Editorial: On Memory
Adrian Heathfield, Andrew Quick
pp. 1 – 3
Archive: Stalking Memory (DVD)
desperate optimists
.. AS .. TO .. BE .. [artist’s pages]
Alastair MacLennan
pp. 4 – 5
Memory is this
Matthew Goulish
pp. 6 – 17
Performing Memory in Holocaust Museums
Richard Cranshaw
pp. 18 – 27
.. AS .. TO .. BE .. [artist’s pages]
Alastair MacLennan
pp. 28 – 29
America/Amnesis
Anthony Kubiak
pp. 30 – 36
Constants [artist’s pages]
Bodies in Flight
pp. 37 – 40
Of the Memory of a Human Unhoused in Being
Michal Kobialka
pp. 41 – 55
Spanish Still Life (Ball of Dead Birds) [artist’s pages]
Mark Booth
pp. 56 – 59
Memory and Monstrosity
Carol Becker
pp. 60 – 73
.. AS .. TO .. BE .. [artist’s pages]
Alastair MacLennan
pp. 74 – 75
Kicking with Another Foot: Contesting Memories in Marie Jones’s A Night in November and Dermot Bolger’s In High Germany
Tom Maguire
pp. 76 – 81
Arm’s Length [artist’s pages]
Tina Takemoto
pp. 82 – 85
Love’s Geography
Peggy Phelan
pp. 86 – 89
Archive Fever: Memory as a challenge to finitude in the work of Rose English and Insomniac Productions
Sarah Gorman
pp. 90 – 99
.. AS .. TO .. BE .. [artist’s pages]
Alastair MacLennan
pp. 100 – 101
Memory Acts: Performing subjectivity
Mieke Bal
pp. 102 – 114
Resisting Memorialisation
Fiona Templeton, Andrew Quick
pp. 115 – 124
Re-membering the Performing Body: Hysteria, memory and performance in Portrait of Dora and Augustine (Big Hysteria)
Joanna Townsend
pp. 125 – 131
Book Review
Guy Undrill
pp. 133 – 137
.. AS .. TO .. BE .. [artist’s pages]
Alastair MacLennan
pp. 138 – 139
Compendium: A Forced Entertainment glossary
Matthew Goulish
pp. 140 – 148
Notes on Contributors
pp. 149 – 150
