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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Maska |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue number | 172-174 |
| Pages (from-to) | 148-159 |
| ISSN | 1318-0509 |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2015 |
Keywords
- Faculty of Humanities
- Performance
- archive
- radio
- history
- copyright
- Walter Benjamin