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This paper focuses on an ongoing project that began in 2012, entitled The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders. This project is an attempt to reconstitute the Marcos Collection. Sourced from auction catalogues, museum archives, and scant government records, their lavish inventory of commissioned portraits, jewellery, Regency silverware, and old master paintings is reproduced as photographic installations, postcards, and three-dimensional prints. Reconstruction, in this instance, becomes a sustained democratic gesture, allowing an increasingly forgetful public to access a collection that has remained unavailable through a systemic failure by successive post-dictatorial governments to institutionalize collective acts of remembering.
Keywords: Philippine history; collective memory; dictatorships; historical reconstruction
Part of Over and Over and Over Again Containing:
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From Re- to Pre- and Back Again / Sven Lütticken
The Reenacted Double: Repetition as a Creative Paradox / Arianna Sforzini
‘The Reconstruction of the Past is the Task of Historians and not Agents’: Operative Reenactment in State Security Archives / Kata Krasznahorkai
The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders: Reconstruction as ‘Democratic Gesture’
Insistence: The Temporality of the Death Fast and the Political / Özge Serin
‘Interrupting the Present’: Political and Artistic Forms of Reenactments in South Africa / Katja Gentric
Resounding Difficult Histories / Juliana Hodkinson
Archival Diffractions: A Response to Le Nemesiache’s Call / Giulia Damiani
Archival Reenactement and the Role of Fiction: Walid Raad and the Atlas Group Archive / Roberta Agnese
Unintentional Reenactments: Yella by Christian Petzold / Clio Nicastro
Everyday Aesthetics and the Practice of Historical Reenactment: Revisiting Cavell’s Emerson / Ulrike Wagner
Speculative Writing: Unfilmed Scripts and Premediation Events / Pablo Gonçalo
Reenactment in Theatre: Some Reflections on the Philosophical Status of Restaging / Daniela Sacco
Re-search, Re-enactment, Re-design, Re-programmed Art / Serena Cangiano, Davide Fornari, Azalea Seratoni
In the Beginning There Is an End: Approaching Gina Pane, Approaching Discours mou et mat / Malin Arnell
Performance Art in the 1990s and the Generation Gap / Pierre Saurisse
Re-Presenting Art History: An Unfinished Process / Cristina Baldacci
Reconciling Authenticity and Reenactment: An Art Conservation Perspective / Amy Brost
UNFOLD: The Strategic Importance of Reinterpretation for Media Art Mediation and Conservation / Gaby Wijers
Unfold Nan Hoover: On the Importance of Actively Encouraging a Variable Understanding of Artworks for the Sake of their Preservation and Mediation / Vera Sofia Mota, Fransien van der Putt
Living Simulacrum: The Neoplastic Room in Łódź: 1948 / 1960 / 1966 / 1983 / 2006 / 2008 / 2010 / 2011 / 2013 / 2017 / ∞ / Joanna Kiliszek
‘Repetition: Summer Display 1983’ at Van Abbemuseum: Or, What Institutional Curatorial Archives Can Tell Us about the Museum / Michela Alessandrini
‘Political-Timing-Specific’ Performance Art in the Realm of the Museum: The Potential of Reenactment as Practice of Memorialization / Hélia Marçal, Daniela Salazar
‘We Are Gathering Experience’: Restaging the History of Art Education / Alethea Rockwell
Title
The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders
Subtitle
Reconstruction as ‘Democratic Gesture’
Author(s)
Pio Abad
Identifier
Description
This paper focuses on an ongoing project that began in 2012, entitled The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders. This project is an attempt to reconstitute the Marcos Collection. Sourced from auction catalogues, museum archives, and scant government records, their lavish inventory of commissioned portraits, jewellery, Regency silverware, and old master paintings is reproduced as photographic installations, postcards, and three-dimensional prints. Reconstruction, in this instance, becomes a sustained democratic gesture, allowing an increasingly forgetful public to access a collection that has remained unavailable through a systemic failure by successive post-dictatorial governments to institutionalize collective acts of remembering.
Is Part Of
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
4 January 2022
Subject
Philippine history
collective memory
dictatorships
historical reconstruction
Rights
© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Language
en-GB
page start
37
page end
46
Source
Over and Over and Over Again: Reenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory, ed. by Cristina Baldacci, Clio Nicastro, and Arianna Sforzini, Cultural Inquiry, 21 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 37–46

References

Cite as: Pio Abad, ‘The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders: Reconstruction as “Democratic Gesture”’, in Over and Over and Over Again: Reenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory, ed. by Cristina Baldacci, Clio Nicastro, and Arianna Sforzini, Cultural Inquiry, 21 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 37-46 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-21_05>