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Towards a Definition of Artistic Re-enactment

Summary/Abstract: The article examines contemporary artistic practices which focus on memory and politics, with the intention to analyse the different kinds of critical approaches that artists use to deal with the past. The strategy of artistic re-enactments is used as a critical tool when artists interpret a past event and the works can be created in a way that help to better understand our present. Artistic reenactments can be distinguished from historical re-enactments, which are organized by re-enactor societies and focus mostly on the authenticity of a specific event. Artistic reenactments, on the other hand, usually take on a critical approach questioning historical representations, present missing narratives, voices, an emphasize the clash between personal and collective memory.

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