Re-enactment is nogal heet in de States, dit artikel in The Village Voice laat politieke speeches opnieuw uitspreken:
A Port Huron statement: Gina Brown re-enacts Coretta Scott King
“ In 2006's Until the Last Gun Is Silent, actress Gina Brown, wearing a somber black dress and a midnight-blue hat, channels Coretta Scott King's poignant 1968 Central Park address, derived from notes found in her husband's pocket at the time of his assassination three weeks earlier. She speaks of his vilification for opposing the Vietnam War, then moves on to the tension between the haves and have-nots, noting: "Our Congress passes laws which subsidize corporation farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia, but when they turn their attention to the poor, they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget." Plus ça change. . . . The production values of these faux time capsules are spare, but the rhetoric resonates across the decades, hopefully making it easier for us—unlike the generation that trusted no one over 30—to heed the wisdom of our elders.”
http://www.villagevoice.com/art/0803,baker,78832,13.html
Gisteren werd in een commentaar een tekst van Hunther Thompson uit mijn begindagen als blogger geciteerd, gisteren toegevoegd bij de dag dat ik de tekst op het net plaatste:
"The American nation is in the worst condition I can remember in my lifetime, and our prospects for the immediate future are even worse. I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it. Our highway system is crumbling, our police are dishonest, our children are poor, our vaunted Social Security, once the envy of the world, has been looted and neglected and destroyed by the same gang of ignorant, greed-crazed bastards who brought us Vietnam, Afghanistan, the disastrous Gaza Strip, and ignominious defeat all over the world."
http://blogger.xs4all.nl/chmkoome/archive/2004/08/31/6653.aspx
En in de kunstwereld heeft bijvoorbeeld Marina Abramovic zeven belangrijke Performances overgedaan in New York in 2005. Wat betekent dit allemaal, is het een gebrek aan creativiteit, een herorientering op de (moderne) klassieken, een zich bewust worden van het nieuwe vocabulaire of een erkenning van het idee dat alles beweegt, maar niets verandert?
The Lips of Thomas (Seven Easy Pieces) By Marina Abramovic
http://www.hotreview.org/articles/marinaabram.htm