Présentation
Reconstructions are not new, they play a central role in popular culture and art. Especially in contemporary art, however, reconstruction can offer a critical and reflective perspective, aimed more at comprehension than faithful reproduction. The book’s authors present several approaches to reconstruction, with variations on the theme reflecting the absence of consensus on the term used to designate the phenomenon – remake, reconstitution, reactivation. In different sections of the book, authors explore reconstruction first as a reflexive strategy, then as a performative response, and finally through examination of the specific case of the reconstruction offered by Galerie UQO in 2019 of the exhibition Jana Sterbak: States of Being/Corps à corps, presented at the National Gallery of Canada in 1991.
Table des matières
07 Introduction
Mélanie Boucher and Marie-Hélène Leblanc
A REFLECTIVE STRATEGY
21 Reesa Greenberg
Reconstituting Reconstitutes Exhibitions: Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party
37 Marie J. Jean
Créer à rebours vers l'exposition : An Overview
60 Marie Fraser
Créer à rebours vers l'exposition : The case of "Montreal, plus or minus?"
83 Marie-Hélène Leblanc
Making the Exhibition
A PERFORMATIVE RESPONSE
95 Mathieu Copeland
The Exhibition as Material /The Materiality of the Exhibition
115 Sophie Bélair Clément and Vincent Bonin
From Reprise to Response: Fragments from a Conversation Between Sophie Bélair Clément and Vincent Bonin
127 Prinz Gholam
Passer au présent, passer à la présence : The Performance Practice of Prinz Gholam
ONE CASE RECOUNTED
159 Mélanie Boucher
What Role for the Archive in Reconstittions? The Sterbak case-The Flesh Dress at the National Gallery
173 Diana Nemiroff
Food fo Thought: Jana Sterbak's Flesh Dress and the National Gallery of Canada
187 Safa Jomaa
Voice of Fire and its Media Controversy: the Rhetoric and its Repercussions
197 Jessica Ragazzini
Exhibiting Flesh Dresses: the Cases of Jana Sterbak and Lady Gaga
