Smith, Cauleen; Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Pelta Feldman, Jules (2023). Potential Afterlives: Cauleen Smith on the Relation of Film and Performance In: Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Pelta Feldman, Jules; Magnin, Emilie (eds.) Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care, Volume I (pp. 293-304). London and New York: Taylor & Francis
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In this conversation with the book’s editors, filmmaker and multimedia artist Cauleen Smith discusses the possible afterlives of her works— as documentation, as reenactment, and as memory. She explains the relation between film and performance, noting that she approaches every project as a film, whether or not it results in one, and stresses the importance of embracing contingency in her work. Works included in the discussion are Drylongso (1998), Remote Viewing (2011), Sojourner (2019), and Space is the Place (A March for Sun Ra) (2011), the last of which documents the Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band, a “flash mob” Smith organized in Chicago, for which a high school marching band played the music of Sun Ra. She also speaks about Black Love Procession, a collective performance—part celebratory parade, part political protest—that she organized in Chicago in 2015. As Smith explains, revisiting the past—as she has done in several different ways— has the potential both to resurrect old traumas but also to build a better future.
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Bern Academy of the Arts Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture > Contemporary Art and Media |
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Smith, Cauleen; Hölling, Hanna Barbara  0000-0002-3063-4405; Pelta Feldman, Jules 0000-0001-8308-5174; Hölling, Hanna Barbara 0000-0002-3063-4405; Pelta Feldman, Jules 0000-0001-8308-5174 and Magnin, Emilie 0000-0001-7160-1725 |
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A General Works > AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General) N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general |
ISBN: |
9781032314877 |
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Taylor & Francis |
Funders: |
[7] Swiss National Science Foundation |
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[198] Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge Official URL
[236] Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care Official URL |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Hanna Barbara Hölling |
Date Deposited: |
06 Sep 2023 10:02 |
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04 Oct 2023 09:30 |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Performance, conservation, preservation, performance-based works, performative, museology, museums |
ARBOR DOI: |
10.24451/arbor.19827 |
URI: |
https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/19827 |
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