Now What? is an innovative exploration of artworks and films that return to radical histories subject to erasure or otherwise lost or occluded over time. The moments returned to—the Cuban Revolution, Chile’s 1973
coup d’état, the ambiguous 1989 “revolution” in Romania, and the mayhem surrounding the Red Army Faction in 1970s West Germany—stand as historical watersheds, foundational and precipitate moments in the history of radical politics. Delving into these key historical moments by way of Tania Bruguera’s 2009 performance
Tatlin’s Whisper in Havana, filmmaker Patricio Guzmán’s decades-long cycle of returns to Allende’s Chile, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica’s
Videograms of a Revolution, Corneliu Porumboiu’s
12:08 East of Bucharest, the film
Germany in Autumn, and Gerhard Richter’s
October 18, 1977 suite of paintings, Rachel Weiss convincingly threads these works together through subtle and illuminating reflections on the complex dynamics involved in historical trauma and memory, addressing key questions about the meanings and uses of the past.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction : Being Afterward | 1
1 Lupe at the Mic
After January 1959, Havana, Cuba, in Tatlin’s Whisper #6 | 11
2 The Tenuous Moonlight of an Unrequited Past
After September 11, 1973, Santiago de Chile, in The Battle
of Chile, Chile: Obstinate Memory, and Nostalgia for the Light | 35
3 Something That Opens a Wish and Closes a Door
After December 1989, Romania, in Videograms of a Revolution,
Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, and 12:08 East of Bucharest | 63
4 Whoever Knows the Truth Lies
After October 1977, West Germany, in Germany in Autumn and October 18, 1977 | 123
Conclusion : The Undersong of Our Histories | 161
Acknowledgments | 183
Notes | 185
Über den Autor
Rachel Weiss is Professor of Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of To and From Utopia in the New Cuban Art.
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