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Abstract: This essay takes as its central concern the historical transmission of Reza Abdoh’s performance works via their circulation in the artist’s retrospective exhibit at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in 2019. I analyze two interlaced defining features in the KW exhibition—archival remixing and viscerality—that the curators used to honor Abdoh’s artistic legacy. Focusing on the exhibit as a medium of performance historiography in diaspora, this essay argues that the multimedia installation of Abdoh’s archival work in the exhibition format utilized performance archives to create a haptic and visceral site of historiography and memory.
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