Raising the ruins: re-enactment and remembering as a mode of documentation

Joanna Jayne Bucknall

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    Abstract

    There is much debate as to whether the documentation of professional performance practice is ontological or ideological and as to what role documentation plays in the legacy and constitution of culture and arts history. Phillip Auslander suggests that the documentation of work is not simply an ethnographic activity but instead is more closely related to the reproduction of works and therefore might be understood to actually perform culture:
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages29-35
    Specialist publicationFeltActs: An Online Journal for Performance
    Publication statusPublished - Dec 2014

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