This work investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. Contributors are drawn from a range of backgrounds, including art and architectural history, film, theatre and performance studies, social and cultural history.

Scholars of art history, media and cultural studies, literature and performance studies will all find this work a valuable resource.

1. Richard Candida Smith Introduction: Performing the Archive 2. Warren Linds, Alejandra Medellin and Kadi Purru Resonating Testimonies from/in the Space of Death: Performing Buenaventura's La Maestra 3. Stephanie Marlin-Curiel Truth and Consequences: Art in Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 4. Anne Rutherford Precarious Boundaries: Affect, Mise-en-scene, and the Senses 5. Elvan Zabunyan Stratum and Resonance: Displacement in the Work of Renee Green 6. David Michalski Cities Memory Voices Collage 7. Paul Karlstrom Eros in the Studio 8. Jeff Friedman Muscle Memory: Performing Embodied Knowledge 9. Ryan Snyder 'Hope...Teach, Yaknowhati'masyin': Freestylin Knowledge through Detroit Hiphop 10. Richard Candida Smith Les Gammes: Making Visible to Representative Modern Man 11. Ana Maria Mauad Composite Past: Photography and Family Memories in Brazil (1850-1950) 12. Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins
Memories of Mammy 13. Ivy Schroeder Official Art,
Official Publics: Public Sculpture under the Federal Art-in-Architecture Program since 1972 14. Iain Borden and Jane Rendell Private Reflections/Public Matters: Public Art in the City