1776
Revolutionary War reenactment, rather than codifying a narrow and politicized narrative of the American War of Independence, offers a space for a multiplicity of voices and a presentation of history as complex, multi-sided, and evolving. With its intention to share "living history," reenactment creates an opportunity for a radical merging of the past and the present. As history lives in the bodies of the reenactors, so does their present begin to embed itself in the past, to create a new corpus of knowledge that adds contemporary and personal perspective to historical fact. The public performance engenders this radical simultaneity of time, and allows both reenactors and their audience to go into a state of suspension, bound neither to the past nor to the present, into an imaginary state that exists fully outside of the two.
Selections from 1776, 2021-present
Selections from 1776, 2021-present