Performance Research Volume 5 Issue 3

On Memory

Issue editors: Adrian Heathfield & Andrew Quick

ISBN: 978-0-415-24104

Appearing at the end of the year 2000, in an era that many cultural commentators have characterized as suffering from a pervasive amnesia, the issue will reflect on the use of performance as a means for cultures across the world to define themselves. It will explore the impact of the forces of memory on performance in culture, examining the implications of these forces for the ways in which we resolve the past, foresee the future and construct our individual and national identities. In this context, the issue will question how the dynamics of memory, remembrance and forgetting relate to the aesthetics of performance.

Editorial: On Memory

Adrian Heathfield, Andrew Quick

pp. 1 - 3

Archive: Stalking Memory (DVD)

desperate optimists

.. AS .. TO .. BE .. [artist's pages]

Alastair MacLennan

pp. 4 - 5

Memory is this

Matthew Goulish

pp. 6 - 17

Performing Memory in Holocaust Museums

Richard Cranshaw

pp. 18 - 27

.. AS .. TO .. BE .. [artist's pages]

Alastair MacLennan

pp. 28 - 29

America/Amnesis

Anthony Kubiak

pp. 30 - 36

Constants [artist's pages]

Bodies in Flight

pp. 37 - 40

Of the Memory of a Human Unhoused in Being

Michal Kobialka

pp. 41 - 55

Spanish Still Life (Ball of Dead Birds) [artist's pages]

Mark Booth

pp. 56 - 59

Memory and Monstrosity

Carol Becker

pp. 60 - 73

.. AS .. TO .. BE .. [artist's pages]

Alastair MacLennan

pp. 74 - 75

Kicking with Another Foot: Contesting Memories in Marie Jones's A Night in November and Dermot Bolger's In High Germany

Tom Maguire

pp. 76 - 81

Arm's Length [artist's pages]

Tina Takemoto

pp. 82 - 85

Love's Geography

Peggy Phelan

pp. 86 - 89

Archive Fever: Memory as a challenge to finitude in the work of Rose English and Insomniac Productions

Sarah Gorman

pp. 90 - 99

.. AS .. TO .. BE .. [artist's pages]

Alastair MacLennan

pp. 100 - 101

Memory Acts: Performing subjectivity

Mieke Bal

pp. 102 - 114

Resisting Memorialisation

Fiona Templeton, Andrew Quick

pp. 115 - 124

Re-membering the Performing Body: Hysteria, memory and performance in Portrait of Dora and Augustine (Big Hysteria)

Joanna Townsend

pp. 125 - 131

Book Review

Guy Undrill

pp. 133 - 137

.. AS .. TO .. BE .. [artist's pages]

Alastair MacLennan

pp. 138 - 139

Compendium: A Forced Entertainment glossary

Matthew Goulish

pp. 140 - 148

Notes on Contributors

pp. 149 - 150