Media | Performing Past-Present: Transforming Reenactment

Sharon Hayes

a child ponders with a microphone in front of her as other children watch — Sharon Hayes, *Ricerche: one* (HD video still). 2019. Courtesy of the Artist and Tanya Leighton Gallery. Pictured (l to r) Winter Collins, Orion Akash Phelps, Dylan Sumner.

teens gather together on the beach — Sharon Hayes, *Ricerche: one* (HD video still). 2019. Courtesy of the Artist and Tanya Leighton Gallery.

Jennifer Karady

a mother in military uniform with family — Jennifer Karady, from the series *Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, 2006–* Analog chromogenic color print, 48”. x 48”, mounted and framed. Image courtesy of the artist.

Former Specialist Shelby Webster, 24th Transportation Company, 541st Maintenance Battalion, U.S. Army, veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, with children, Riley, Dillin, and Sidnie, brother Delshay, and Uncle Derek; Omaha Nation Reservation, NE, 2010.

a woman soldier on a bed with someone watching over her as she sleeps — Jennifer Karady, from the series *Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, 2006–* Analog chromogenic color print, 48” x 48”, mounted and framed, and audio and text story. Excerpt from Gillespie’s soldiers’ story (page left), transcribed and edited from interview conducted by the artist in April and May 2011. Image courtesy of the artist.

Former Specialist Brittny Gillespie, 139th Military Police Company, 16th MP Brigade, U.S. Army, veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, with Volunteers of America Los Angeles Battle Buddy Elizabeth Saucedo and friend Corey; Los Angeles, CA, 2014.

Dread Scott

slave revolt reenactors marching while holding a flag and muskets — **Dread Scott**, *Slave Rebellion Reenactment*, performance still 4, 2020, pigment print, 39 and 3/8” x 59 and 1/8” Photo by Soul Brother. Image courtesy of the artist.

reenacters rewalk the route of the nearly successful and erased from history 1811 slave revolt — **Dread Scott**, *Slave Rebellion Reenactment*, performance still 1, 2020, pigment print, 39 and 3/8” x 59 and 1/8” Photo by Soul Brother. Image courtesy of the artist.

Marisa Williamson

the artist dressed as Sally Hemings sites on the steps of Monticello — Marisa Williamson, *What Would Sally Do?* 2013. 5:11 min. Photo by Avery Williamson. Image courtesy of the artist.

*Williamson performs as Sally Hemings on the winter grounds of Monticello: she is a woman of the past and the present.*

a woman in traditional clothes stands before a burning building — Marisa Williamson, *The Fire* (*Wild is the Wind*), 2017. Live animation, color, sound (Nina Simone’s *Wild is the Wind*), 5:03 min. Image courtesy of the artist.

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