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Description of  Performing Memory: Corporeality, Visuality, and Mobility after 1968 (Making Sense of History, 47)

Through a post-1968 perspective on the past 50 years, Performing Memory brings together case studies on new developments in the relationship between politics and visual representationincluding the histories of dance, theatre, political performance and cinemaand investigates how they relate to the interlinked concepts of visuality, corporeality and mobility. Using a collective transdisciplinary attitude from within historical disciplines, and looking across to artistic fields, this volume demonstrates that memory is not merely a recollection of experience but an interactive process, in which the body, mobile and constrained, is both a point of departure and reference. Read more