RE:akt!
Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting

EDITOR: Antonio Caronia, Janez Jansa, Domenico Quaranta
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY: Jennifer Allen, Antonio Caronia, Rod Dickinson, Domenico Quaranta, Jan Verwoert

LANGUAGE: english
RELEASE: March 2009

150 x 210 mm / 5.9 x 8.3 in - 144 pages
ISBN: 978-88-903308-6-5
Euro 25,00
Just what is it that leads many contemporary artists to restage historic events, performances of the past, even imaginary events? Are they possessed by the post-modern demon? Does this practice spring from a cynical awareness of the decline of values? Is it yet another variation on “the end of history”? Or is it simply the end of the modern myth of the “originality” of the work of art, and an attempt to find a different, deeper path to critique the medial ideology of contemporary society?
Through the texts of critics, theorists and artists as Jennifer Allen, Antonio Caronia, Rod Dickinson, Domenico Quaranta and Jan Verwoert, and through the works by Lucas Bambozzi, Vaginal Davis, Quentin Drouet, Janez Jansa, Janez Jansa, Janez Jansa, Eva and Franco Mattes (aka 0100101110101101.ORG) and SilentCell Network, RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting wants to offer some answers to these questions linked to the artistic practice of re-enactment and its possible redefinition.
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