The Body as a Historiographic Writing Tool in ŽemAt’s Video Work “Imagining the Absence” (2014)

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In many post-socialist societies, the artist as a historian has seemingly found a new historiographic writing tool: the body. Since the post-socialist transition, the body has increasingly gained significance as an important instrument for shaping contemporary video installations as 'mnemonic topographies'. The video piece Imagining the Absence (2014) by the Lithuanian artist group ŽemAt provides a rich example of the mnemonic and historiographic complexity of the 'textual nature' of performing bodies.
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Original languageEnglish
JournalActa Academiae Artium Vilnensis, Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts
Volume2016
Issue number80-81
Pages (from-to)169-178
Number of pages10
ISSN1392-0316
Publication statusPublished - 2016

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ISBN 978-609-447-221-3

    Research areas

  • Science of art - Art of Memory, body, cgildren of post-communism, historiography, sajudis