Rivka Syd Eisner
University of Zurich
18 Papers
79 Citations
Rivka Syd Eisner is an academic researcher from University of Zurich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vietnamese & Torture. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 18 publications. Previous affiliations of Rivka Syd Eisner include Aarhus University.
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Papers
Performing Archives/Archives of Performance
Heike Roms,Amelia Jones,Julie Louise Bacon,Peter van der Meijden,Emma Willis,Rivka Syd Eisner,Rachel Fensham,Sarah Whatley,Tracy C. Davis,Barnaby King,Laura Luise Schultz,Malene Vest Hansen,Mette Sandbye,Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen,Margherita Sprio,Annelis Kuhlmann,Morton Sondergaard,Martha Wilson,Catherine Bagnall,Paul Clarke,Solveig Gade,Gunhild Borggreen,Rune Gade,Louise Wolthers,Mathias Danbolt,Marco Pustiaanaz +25 more
- 01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: Performing Archives/Archives of Performance contributes to the ongoing critical discussions of performance and its disappearance, of the ephemeral and its reproduction, of archives and mediatized recordings of liveness as mentioned in this paper.
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Re-enacting the past: Vivifying heritage ‘again’
Mads Daugbjerg,Rivka Syd Eisner,Britta Timm Knudsen +2 more
- 01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: For example, the Mexican tourism concept Caminata Nocturna (running since 2004), the British Battle of Orgreave event staged by Jeremy Deller in 2001, Joshua Oppenheimer's prize-winning 2012 documentary, and the British Civil War as discussed by the authors.
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Re-enacting the past: vivifying heritage ‘again’
TL;DR: For example, the Mexican tourism concept Caminata Nocturna (running since 2004), the British Battle of Orgreave event staged by Jeremy Deller in 2001, Joshua Oppenheimer's prize-winning 2012 documentary, and the British Civil War as discussed by the authors.
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Performing Pain-Taking and Ghostly Remembering in Vietnam
TL;DR: Co Ðịnh and co Xuân, two women veterans in Ho Chi Minh City, recount their memories of torture during the Vietnamese-American war as mentioned in this paper, and their remembering requires a performance-centered exploration of the Vietnamese women's tradition of "paintaking," as well as their haunting return to the Con Dao prisons as veteran-tourists.
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Performing prospective memory
TL;DR: The life narratives of co Nht, a former communist guerilla fighter and political prisoner during the American War in Vietnam, illuminate a dynamic politics of iteration and innovation at play within each act of remembering as discussed by the authors.
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