The historian is present: live interactive documentary as collaborative history

IF 0.5 2区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

Rethinking History Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI:10.1080/13642529.2022.2103618

K. Nelson

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ABSTRACT Historical narratives seek to give us a shared reality, argued through recourse to evidence. Both impulses are under threat in the Age of the Anthropocene. This article introduces Live Interactive Documentary, a ‘performance dissemination’ model for history that deploys digital tools to merge cinema and lecture into a new form. It is designed to respond to Hayden White’s challenge in ‘The Burden of History’ and Bruno Latour’s call to gather as a bulwark to misinformation and the manipulative, political cooption of postmodern scepticism. Live Interactive Documentary creates a spectacle of archive and expertise, injected with post-postmodern values of polyphony and audience exchange, grounded in the local. This essay describes the form that I piloted with a team that includes historian Robert Nelson and composer, musician and media artist Brent Lee. Live Interactive Documentary is a model of ‘moving (image) history’ that seeks to cross boundaries between practice and theory, as well as history, film, multimedia performance art and participation. This hybrid cinema model draws upon theories of historiography, film and new media. It digitises earlier models of theatre and film exhibition and responds to the challenges of the Anthropocene by prioritising negotiation, complexity and gathering face-to-face in the real space of our analogue world.

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历史学家在场:作为协作历史的现场互动纪录片

摘要历史叙事试图通过诉诸证据来给我们一个共同的现实。在人类世时代，这两种冲动都受到了威胁。本文介绍了《现场互动纪录片》，这是一种“表演传播”的历史模式，它利用数字工具将电影和讲座融合成一种新的形式。它旨在回应海登·怀特在《历史的负担》中提出的挑战，以及布鲁诺·拉图尔呼吁聚集在一起，作为抵御错误信息和后现代怀疑主义操纵性政治合作的堡垒。现场互动纪录片创造了一个档案和专业知识的奇观，注入了后现代复调和观众交流的价值观，立足于当地。这篇文章描述了我与一个团队一起尝试的形式，该团队包括历史学家罗伯特·纳尔逊和作曲家、音乐家和媒体艺术家布伦特·李。现场互动纪录片是一种“移动（图像）历史”的模式，旨在跨越实践和理论以及历史、电影、多媒体行为艺术和参与之间的界限。这种混合电影模式借鉴了史学、电影和新媒体的理论。它将早期的戏剧和电影展览模式数字化，并通过优先考虑谈判、复杂性和在模拟世界的真实空间中面对面聚会来应对人类世的挑战。

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期刊介绍： This acclaimed journal allows historians in a broad range of specialities to experiment with new ways of presenting and interpreting history. Rethinking History challenges the accepted ways of doing history and rethinks the traditional paradigms, providing a unique forum in which practitioners and theorists can debate and expand the boundaries of the discipline.