TALK: Memory, Performance and The Idea Of The Museum
Dennis Kennedy (Trinity College, Dublin)
Tuesday, October 17 5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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Memory is central to art production since art is inevitably caught in the bend between time and our attempts to stop it. Performance is one of memory’s greatest tests, precisely because performance does not elude time; in the moment of its accomplishment it escapes into memory. Our discussion will include methods of organizing the space of memory (Michel de Certeau), the relationship of theatre festivals to memory, an attempt to unseat the significance of cultural memory and problematize its relationship to Shakespeare performance, and an examination of Hamlet and the process of forgetting. Dennis Kennedy is Samuel Becket Professor of Drama in Trinity College Dublin. His books include The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance; Looking At Shakespeare: A Visual History Of Twentieth-Century Performance and Granville Barker and the Dream of Theatre.

Sponsored by the IHC’s Performance Studies Research Focus Group

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