Re-enactments: A historiographic method to apprehend conditions of change in our liquid world.

 

Boris Debackere and Steven Devleminck re-enacted a lecture by Marshall Berman entitled All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. The following is an interview conducted on the day by Ladies Of The Press.

‘Re-enactments: A historical method to apprehend conditions of change in our liquid world. The original delivery of this lecture saw Marshall Berman carried on stage by two women to NWA’s ‘Straight out of Compton’ playing. It is fitting that the actor for today’s lecture also played the same track, to our complete surprise at the time. “Hello. I want to talk to you today about modernity…”‘

To read more go to page 15 of the Ladies Of The Press’ ‘zine: http://issuu.com/ladiesofthepress1/docs/against_delivery_day1_full