The Migratory Cycle of Images: Reactivation Strategies in Contemporary Artistic Productions

Auteurs

  • Stefano Mudu Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Mots-clés :

Enactment, Re-enactment, Migratory cicle of images, Visual culturer, Contemporary art

Résumé

Since the 1990s, an increasing number of artists, curators, dancers, choreographers and other professionals of the cultural panorama have looked at reality with an extractive approach: they have used objects already in circulation in the artistic context and re-proposed them in the present by adjusting them on a formal and/or content level. With the aim of analysing the consequences of these reactivation strategies, the essay intends to outline the importance of the so-called “re-enactment studies” which have hitherto dealt with the subject, and it then discusses the utility of a novel analytical model called “migratory cycle of images”. The latter proposes to approach a generic act of reactivation in operational terms, identifying the role that images play in the various phases of the process. Finding proper support in contemporary philosophical theories such as Object-Oriented Ontology and in the analysis of some exemplary artistic productions, this operation allows to: question the terminology currently used in the field, arrive at the formulation of new nomenclatures, and, finally, outline the boundaries of the “enactment studies”, along with different prefixes to differentiate the multiform methods of re-generating the existing.

Biographie de l'auteur

Stefano Mudu, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Stefano Mudu holds a PhD in Visual Culture. In Venice, he collaborates with IUAV University and Ca’ Foscari University, while he also teaches Media Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sassari. His research interests focus on re-enactment and other form of enactments as artistic practices; reactivation strategies in visual culture; rethinking art history in relation to queer, eco-feminist, environmental and colonial issues. He is the author of Spazi critici. I luoghi della scrittura d’arte contemporanea (Mimesis, Udine 2018) and editor of Altrove. New Fiction (Bruno, Venezia 2020). For the past two years, he has worked in the curatorial team of the 59. Venice Biennale, assisting artistic director Cecilia Alemani in the research for the main exhibition The Milk of Dreams.

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Publiée

2023-12-30

Comment citer

Mudu, S. (2023). The Migratory Cycle of Images: Reactivation Strategies in Contemporary Artistic Productions. Elephant & Castle, (31). Consulté à l’adresse https://elephantandcastle.unibg.it/index.php/eac/article/view/485