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- Title
Historically speaking: The workings of the past in a performance by Olof Olsson.
- Authors
Sørensen, Trine Friis
- Abstract
This article sets out to untangle the workings of the past in a performance by Danish-Swedish-Dutch artist Olof Olsson. Leaving behind the official documents of the Danmarks Radio (DR) Archive, Olsson explores the byroads of radio history through a miscellaneous assortment of nugatory documents and objects. The article proceeds as a close reading of aspects of Olsson's performance using three figures described by Walter Benjamin - the collector, the storyteller and the historian - as points of reference. By tracing out the contours of these figures in Olsson's performance, I am able to elucidate the subversive potentiality of his digressive narrative.
- Subjects
PERFORMING arts -- History; OLSSON, Olof; RADIO archives; RADIO programs; BENJAMIN, Walter, 1892-1940; HISTORY
- Publication
Maska, 2015, Vol 30, Issue 172/174, p148
- ISSN
1318-0509
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/maska.30.172-174.148_1