Rebecca Schneider, Remimesis: Feminism, Theatricality, and Acts of Temporal Drag , lecture, 2009. re.act.feminism - performance art of the 1960s and 70s today, Conference and Live Performances, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Rebecca Schneider
Remimesis: Feminism, Theatricality, and Acts of Temporal Drag

Rebecca Schneider is Professor in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (USA). She teaches performance studies, decolonial methods in media and live arts, prehistories of the screen, and theories of intermedia. Author of prizewinning essays and book, she is a consortium editor of TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies and a contributor to the re.act.feminism #2 catalogue, published by Bettina Knaup and Beatrice E. Stammer in 2014. In 2021, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

This talk explores the relationship between the troubled temporality of mimesis – a well-known gendered condition in Western patriarchy – and the feminist and queer politics of contemporary re-enactment art. What time is now? What time is N.O.W.? If the feminine has long been articulated through the pose, the posed, the imposed, and impersonated, what time is the feminine? How is the temporality (and theatricality) of the pose deployed in current artworks invested in critical inquiry? This lecture is part of a larger project that explores the intermedial leaks and gaps between performance, theatre, and photography.

Format
Audio Document

Document media
Lecture

Issue date
2009

To be seen in
re.act.feminism - performance art of the 1960s and 70s today, Conference and Live Performances, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 24.1.2009 / 2:30 pm