Reconstitutions/re-Enactments: Nancy Davenport, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ann Lislegaard, Paul Pfeiffer, Kerry Tribe, DHC/Art, Montreal.
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The past several years have seen major international survey exhibitions devoted to the vast and varied subject of re-enactment in contemporary art. C magazine looked at the phenomenon in its previous issue, albeit in the more expanded context of immersion. It's not just artists and curators who seem eager to stage performances of historical texts and events, but a wide range of participants, including hobbyists' war play, lay historians and heritage industry practitioners, filmmakers, and, last to join the fray, academics. The field is trendy to the point of saturation, which might explain my initial scepticism about Re-enactments, a comparatively modest exhibition at Montreal's DHc/Art.
The foundation's curator, John Zeppetelli, hedges his bets from the get-go, situating the show between two re-enactors par excellence, Jeremy Deller and Marina Abramovic. The familiar contexts of "popular" re-enactment, the kind Deller appropriates in his famous Battle of Orgreave (2001), and the live "re-performances" of artworks in Abramovic's Seven Easy Pieces (2005) are positioned as points of departure in an exhibition that...
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