{"id":106,"date":"2003-10-28T17:37:52","date_gmt":"2003-10-29T00:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/some-questions-about-rabbit-proof-fence-and-re-enactment-of-historical-events\/"},"modified":"2003-10-28T17:37:52","modified_gmt":"2003-10-29T00:37:52","slug":"some-questions-about-rabbit-proof-fence-and-re-enactment-of-historical-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/some-questions-about-rabbit-proof-fence-and-re-enactment-of-historical-events\/","title":{"rendered":"some questions about Rabbit Proof Fence and re-enactment of historical events…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rabbit Proof Fence<\/em> …<\/span><\/p>\n

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The whole movie is a re-enactment of events which happened in the 1930s. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The stealing of "half-caste" Aboriginal children from their mothers, <\/span><\/p>\n

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to be taken to "homes" and brought up institutionally. <\/span><\/p>\n

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These particular children escaped the institution and walked all the way home, <\/span><\/p>\n

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several hundred miles north.<\/span><\/p>\n

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How might this filmic re-enactment relate to the re-enactment of key performance pieces from the 1960s? <\/span><\/p>\n

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How important is the re-enactment of a "performance" <\/span><\/p>\n

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(eg Carolee Schneeman's Meat Joy) when we might re-enact “real life events” instead? <\/span><\/p>\n

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Such as Jeremy Deller’s Battle of Orgreave from 1984, re-enacted in 2001. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Deller staged a full scale re-enactment of a historical union-police battle –<\/span><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.artangel.org.uk\/pages\/past\/past_frame.htm<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Other things to consider here – what is actually involved in the re-enactment, and for what purpose? <\/span><\/p>\n

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Is it an "experience" for the people involved? <\/span><\/p>\n

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Is it a pantomime performance to “bring to life” a piece of history? <\/span><\/p>\n

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In Rabbit Proof Fence<\/em>, consider the real<\/u> weeping of the women re-enacting the stealing of their children by white police. <\/span><\/p>\n

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(The DVD edition has a documentary which shows the development of these scenes). <\/span><\/p>\n

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They (the actors) were all devastated, channelling the grief of that history through their own bodies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And: the general preparations of actors for a performance <\/span><\/p>\n

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(loosening exercises, character building games), how similar are these to fluxus activities\/participations? <\/span><\/p>\n

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Play and body play. Allan Kaprow’s classes at Como for the Fondazione Ratti.-<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>http:\/\/www.undo.net\/Visual\/Corso\/mostrekaprow\/mostrekaprow.htm#<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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The doco about the making of Rabbit Proof Fence<\/em> makes the activities of film actors seem fascinating.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The preparations they go through. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Their lives must <\/span>be very interesting lived processes. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Rabbit Proof Fence …   The whole movie is a re-enactment of events which happened in the 1930s.   The stealing of "half-caste" Aboriginal children from their mothers,   to be taken to "homes" and brought up institutionally.   These particular children escaped the institution and walked all the way home,   several hundred miles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,36],"tags":[41,359,489,358,481],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance-art","category-re-enactment","tag-allan-kaprow","tag-carolee-schneeman","tag-cinema","tag-rabbit-proof-fence","tag-re-enactment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucazoid.com\/bilateral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}