I am preparing a paper for the next TAG in York (UK) where I co-direct a session:
http://tag07.york.googlepages.com/archaeology
My problem is ultimately the philosophic question of representation.
Re-presentation presupposes a relationship between a previous truth (presentation) and a subsequent manifestation, communication of that “truth” through a multiplicity of devices, including the museum, of course.
The same with theatre, traditional drama: the representation, the incarnation of a text by a set of actors on a stage, re-presenting characters.
But modern performance subverts that dichotomy: it is presentation in itself, not the representation of an invisible truth, but the acting out of something “more true”, more visible and vivid, than the pre-prepared “idea”.
I think this is very important to archaeology and to the idea of recovering or rebuilding the past. That is, re-presenting something dead.
What we want is to present something whose truth comes from the inside of the presentation, and not an illustration of something “other”.
Have you any idea about this?... The crossing of the mausoleum (the museum, the heritage site) and the modern “heart beat”, the emotion that people expects from us. It is also the problem of contemporary communication.
http://tag07.york.googlepages.com/archaeology
My problem is ultimately the philosophic question of representation.
Re-presentation presupposes a relationship between a previous truth (presentation) and a subsequent manifestation, communication of that “truth” through a multiplicity of devices, including the museum, of course.
The same with theatre, traditional drama: the representation, the incarnation of a text by a set of actors on a stage, re-presenting characters.
But modern performance subverts that dichotomy: it is presentation in itself, not the representation of an invisible truth, but the acting out of something “more true”, more visible and vivid, than the pre-prepared “idea”.
I think this is very important to archaeology and to the idea of recovering or rebuilding the past. That is, re-presenting something dead.
What we want is to present something whose truth comes from the inside of the presentation, and not an illustration of something “other”.
Have you any idea about this?... The crossing of the mausoleum (the museum, the heritage site) and the modern “heart beat”, the emotion that people expects from us. It is also the problem of contemporary communication.
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