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Ernst, Wolf-Dieter:
Narrating an unsettled past : Berlin's Jerusalem [Holocene # 1.2].
In: de Morant, Alix ; Finter, Helga ; Holling, Eva ; Plassard, Didier ; Siebert, Bernhard ; Siegmund, Gerald
(ed.):
Narrativity and Intermediality in Contemporary Theatre. -
Bern
: Lang
,
2021
. - pp. 365-382
. - (Theaomai : Studien zu den performativen Künsten
; 11
)
ISBN 978-3-0343-3964-3
Abstract in another language
This article is looking at modalities of the intermedial-performance Jerusalem [Holocene # 1.2] by the Belgian group Berlin. Partly a staged concert, partly a multi-screen installation of a city’s documentary the performance's topic emerges as the unsettled conflict between Israel and Palastine. Interestingly, the performance deconstructs its own documentary status, as well as it’s own narrative set-up and in doing so, it questions a conventional understanding of the past represented or related to histories and narrations (Jenkins/Taylor).
In a deconstructivist reading, intermedial storytelling in Berlin’s work evokes the productiveness of the past’s absence. Moments of silence, the interplay of a documentary style and a warm concert-like atmosphere established by Peter Van Fairhaven’s composition for Jewish-Arabian traditional instruments open up a space for reflection about the unsettled past. Systematically, this leads us towards the question, how intermediality in performance, quite in contrast to the concept of ‘remediation’ (Bolter/Grusin), supersedes and resists coherent narratives of history.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a book |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | Intermediality; Narrativity; Performance |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Professor Theatre and Media Studies > Professor Theatre and Media Studies - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dieter Ernst Profile Fields > Emerging Fields Profile Fields > Emerging Fields > Cultural Encounters and Transcultural Processes Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Professor Theatre and Media Studies Profile Fields |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 700 Arts and recreation > 700 Arts |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2021 08:56 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Nov 2021 08:56 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/44331 |