Reviving the Archives. The Researcher as Artist and the Artist as Researcher

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbdrama.2021.2.02

Keywords:

archival research, Farge (Arlette), reviving heritage, performing arts, historical narrative

Abstract

How to make the archives live again for a contemporary audience? Based on the writings of a famous historian, Arlette Farge, and on my own experience in working with archives I am arguing in this article that the archive researcher should take inspiration from artistic creativity and artists should pay more attention to the scholar dimension of their research, while both need to understand they are accountable to the next generations for which they need to re-write the historical narrative in a responsible way, as close to the truth as possible.

Author Biography

Cristina MODREANU, Faculty of Theater and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca; e-mail: cmodreanu@yahoo.com

Cristina MODREANU, PhD, is a theatre critic and historian, former curator for the National Theatre Festival of Bucharest (2008-2011), president of the Romanian Association for Performing Arts. She founded and still directs Scena.ro magazine, and she coordinates the Multimedia Dictionary of Romanian Theatre project. From 2021 she is also a researcher of Janovics Screen and Performing Arts at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj. Author of: Playing Chess with the Director, Romanian Cultural Institute Publishing House, Bucharest, 2003; Alexander Hausvater’s Masks, Theater Today Publishing House, Romanian Theater Gallery Collection, Bucharest, 2005; Building Inside. Notes on the Performing Space in Romanian Productions, Cartea Romaneasca Publishing House, Bucharest, 2008; Mihai Măniuțiu – The Ever-Changing Performing Space, Bybliotek Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2010; Utopii performative//Performative Utopias. Radical American Artists in the 21st Century, Humanitas Publishing House, Bucharest, 2014; Fluturele Gladiator//The Gladiator Butterfly. Political, queer and feminist theatre on Romanian stages, Curtea Veche Publishing House, Bucharest, 2016; A History of Romanian Theatre from Communism to Capitalism. Children of a Restless Time, Routledge/ Taylor and Francis Group, London and New York, 2020.

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Andreescu, Gabriel. Existența Prin Cultură: Represiune, Colaboraționism Și Rezistență Intelectuală Sub Regimul Comunist. Colecția Plural M. Iași: Polirom, 2015.

Farge, Arlette, Thomas Scott-Railton, and Natalie Zemon Davis. The Allure of the Archives. Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977. 1st American ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.

STUDIA UBB DRAMATICA, Volume 66 (LXVI), No. 2, October 2021

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2021-10-30

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MODREANU, C. (2021). Reviving the Archives. The Researcher as Artist and the Artist as Researcher. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Dramatica, 66(2), 21–28. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbdrama.2021.2.02

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Volume 66, No. 2, October 2021

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