THE PROMISE OF THE INDEX IN CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTARY PERFORMANCE

Q3 Arts and Humanities Nordic Journal of Aesthetics Pub Date : 2018-11-07 DOI:10.7146/NJA.V27I55-56.110753
Solveig Gade
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This essay investigates the troubled status of the concept of the index and its concomitant notion of evidence within the context of a global, visual culture. Specifically, the essay centres on the notion of the index in an era, where the use of digital images claiming to truthfully represent war and conflict has become an increasingly important part of warfare. Focusing on two documentary works by respectively performance artist Rabih Mroué and visual artist Abu Lawrence Hamdan (Forensic Architecture), the article shows that whilst both artists rely on material documents, which in each their way index back to conflictual events, the crucial point is not so much the status of the evidentiary material per se. Instead, enabled by fictitious strategies, the artists invite us to pay attention to the differing statuses and meanings assigned to documents depending on the particular knowledge systems and spaces of appearance within which they are perceived. In this way, the essay argues, the works of Mroué and Hamdan help us move beyond the discourses within documentary theory, which tend to conform to either a postmodernist relativist position or a realist epistemology.
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索引在当代纪录片表演中的前景
本文调查了索引概念及其伴随的证据概念在全球视觉文化背景下的困境状态。具体来说,这篇文章集中在一个时代索引的概念上,在这个时代,使用声称真实地代表战争和冲突的数字图像已经成为战争中越来越重要的一部分。这篇文章以行为艺术家Rabih mrou和视觉艺术家Abu Lawrence Hamdan (Forensic Architecture)的两件纪录片作品为重点,表明虽然两位艺术家都依赖于材料文件,这些材料以各自的方式索引了冲突事件,但关键的一点不是证据材料本身的地位。相反,通过虚构的策略,艺术家邀请我们关注文件的不同地位和意义,这取决于它们被感知的特定知识系统和外观空间。通过这种方式,本文认为,穆罗伊和哈姆丹的作品帮助我们超越了纪录片理论内部的话语,这些话语倾向于符合后现代主义相对主义立场或现实主义认识论。
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Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
Nordic Journal of Aesthetics Arts and Humanities-Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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