Full Description
This pioneering book analyzes the intersection of arts, heritage and performative politics, challenging traditional distinctions between these disciplines. Highlighting the value of art-based approaches to heritage research, it outlines diverse artistic practices to expand the boundaries of the field.
Departing from the conventional notion of heritage as a static artefact, the book reveals how art heritage functions as a living political performance, exploring its manifestation in artistic practices ranging from music, dance, performance and poetry to rural graffiti and neon signs. Authors draw on detailed case studies and personal experiences to examine the dynamic, playful and experimental ways in which art heritage shapes individual and collective identities, underscoring the importance of viewing culture holistically. Ultimately, this perceptive book fosters new analyses and debates on the performative politics of art heritage, presenting art as an integral part of the heritage meaning-making process.
Interdisciplinary in scope, this book is an enlightening read for students and scholars of human geography, cultural sociology, heritage studies, communication studies and the wider humanities. It will also interest those in the art and heritage communities seeking either a theoretical foundation for understanding art heritage, or practical inspiration for their work.
Contents
Contents
1 Introduction: arts, heritage and performative politics 1
Laima Nomeikaite and Michael Haldrup
PART I ARCHIVES
02 Post-war trauma, memory and the Healing Blanket 14
Jad El Khoury
3 Kalunga Unspoken: living archives in dialogue with a legacy
in motion 22
Luanda Carneiro Jacoel
4 Rural graffiti, creativity and para-archiving 36
Alex Hale
5 Live archiving: processes of becoming a dragon 49
Fernanda Branco
PART II PUBLICS
6 Heritage unbound? Anticipation, queer politics and
performance of memory 68
Denis Maksimov and Michael Haldrup
7 The art liturgy: on the limits of art 81
Liv Kristin Holmberg
8 Heritage in the making: artful sustainability communication
and visitor engagements 95
Tilde Strandbygaard Jessen
9 Troubling performative heritage: Puy du Fou as 'softcore
historicity' 108
Pablo Santacana López
PART III LANDSCAPES
10 Performative writing of Hausmania's subcultures and
atmospheric surface 121
Laima Nomeikaite and Kirstine Reffstrup
11 From artwork to gimmick? Negotiating placemaking in an
industrial heritage context 136
Karin Coenen
12 From trash to art: Heritage performance and the heritagisation
of neon signs in Hong Kong 149
Veronica Sau-wa Mak and Kelly Ka-lam Lee
13 Environmental agency and arts-based practice in more-thanhuman commons 162
Kristine Samson
14 Rust: a political aesthetic of industrial heritage 176
Benjamin Richards
15 Invitations: performative politics of art heritage 188
Laima Nomeikaite and Michael Haldrup
