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Over and Over and Over Again. Re-Enactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory. Symposium 16 – 17 November 2017, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry Since the 1990s, re-enactment has emerged as a key issue in the field of artistic production, in theoretical discourse, and in the socio-political sphere. Current re-enactments question the ability of the present to unpack, embody, and disentangle the past. Thus, to re-enact is to experience the past by reactivating either a particular cultural heritage or unexplored utopias. To re-enact means not to restore but to challenge the past – to not merely repeat it, but to […]