Introduction : performing the archive / Richard Cándidá Smith --
Resonating testimonies from/in the space of death : performing Buenaventura's La maestra / Warren Linds, Laejandra Medellín, and Kadi Purru --
Truth and consequences : art in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Stephanie Marlin-Curiel --
Precarious boundaries : affect, mise-en-scene, and the senses in Theodorus Angelopoulos's Balkans epic / Anne Rutherford --
Stratum and resonance : displacement in the work of Renée Green / Elvan Zabunyan --
Cities memory voices collage / David Michalski --
Eros in the studio / Paul J. Karlstrom --
Muscle memory : performing embodied knowledge / Jeff Friedman --
"Hope ... teach, yaknowhati'msayin" : freestylin knowledge through Detroit hiphop / Ryan Snyder Ananat --
Les gammes : making visible the representative modern man / Richard Cándida Smith --
Composite past : photography and family memories in Brazil (1850-1950) / Ana Maria Mauad --
Memories of mammy / Lizzetta Lefalle-Collins --
Official art, official publics : public sculpture under the Federal Art-in-Architecture Program since 1972 / Ivy Schroeder --
Private reflections/public matters : public art in the city / Iain Borden and Jane Rendell.

Expanding upon longstanding concerns in cultural history about the relation of text and image, this book explores how ideas move across and between expressive forms. The volume explores how media intertextuality creates overlapping repertoires for understanding the past and the present