Performing heritage: Between tradition and Innovation
| Title in English | Performing Heritage: Between Tradition and Innovation |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Antro-pólus |
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| Web | Folyóiratok - Antro-pólus |
| Keywords | Performativity; Performance; UNESCO; Intangible Cultural Heritage; Tradition; Innovation |
| Description | Through performance as a tool of cultural analysis, the paper looks at the form of contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage practices. Using performance as a methodological approach allows heritage practices to be understood as emerging in relational, contingent, and dynamic spaces. One of several disputes arises in using and mediating intangible cultural heritage - where is the boundary between 'tradition' and 'innovation'? For events registered as Intangible Cultural Heritage, there is a tendency to preserve these practices and thus suppress the cultural process, but at the same time, contemporary ideas and innovations, whether conscious or unconscious, emerge quite spontaneously. The concept of the performativity of heritage also challenges the notion of audience passivity and places the audience in the role of active actors in the performance of heritage. |