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Invisible hands in the history of the magic lantern: where theatre studies and media archaeology meet
Early Popular Visual Culture Pub Date : 2022-02-02 , DOI: 10.1080/17460654.2021.2016213
Nele Wynants 1
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ABSTRACT

Taking its cue from magic lantern performance as a cultural practice, this article explores and expands the ground where theatre studies and media archaeology overlap. The aim is not only to unearth untold stories of the theatrical past, but also to develop models and approaches for how theatre and performance studies can contribute to and participate in media archaeological excavations, and integrate performance into the cultural histories of technology. The study of both the material and the discursive remains of magic lantern performances requires an interdisciplinary approach. Lantern shows were live, embodied and media-based performances. What remains are material traces such as slides, projection devices and surviving lecture texts bearing witness of these past events. Focusing on the hands of the person that selected the slides and operated the lantern allows us to bring into play the crucial condition of liveness, central in theatre and performance studies and the history of the lantern. The slides are not just material remains, but also traces of the interactions of living bodies that handled them in the past. In interaction with the hands that examine them in the present, the object once again becomes part of a live encounter. This dynamic interplay between past and present enables a shift from prevailing teleological historiography to previously untold stories, forgotten events and unknown people. The last part of the article draws attention to the invisible hands of (female) assistants who operated the lantern, in an attempt to re-present these invisible and poorly documented hands.



中文翻译:

魔灯历史上的无形之手:戏剧研究与媒体考古相遇的地方

摘要

本文以魔灯表演作为一种文化实践为线索,探索和扩展了戏剧研究和媒体考古学重叠的领域。其目的不仅是发掘戏剧过去的不为人知的故事,而且还为戏剧和表演研究如何有助于和参与媒体考古发掘以及将表演融入技术文化史开发模型和方法。对灯笼表演的材料和话语遗迹的研究需要跨学科的方法。彩灯表演是现场表演、体现形式和基于媒体的表演。剩下的是诸如幻灯片、投影设备和幸存下来的讲课文字等物质痕迹,这些文字见证了这些过去的事件。专注于选择幻灯片和操作灯笼的人的手,使我们能够发挥重要的活力条件,在戏剧和表演研究中的核心以及灯笼的历史。这些幻灯片不仅是物质遗骸,也是过去处理它们的活体相互作用的痕迹。在与当前检查它们的手互动时,该对象再次成为现场相遇的一部分。过去和现在之间的这种动态相互作用使流行的目的论史学转变为以前不为人知的故事、被遗忘的事件和不为人知的人。文章的最后一部分提请注意操作灯笼的(女性)助手的无形之手,试图重新呈现这些无形且记录不充分的手。

更新日期:2022-02-03
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