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Mike Sell (MS): James, the editors have asked us to consider several questions in respect to the transmission and preservation of the radical, by which I would understand a kind of promise or potential of radicality, or perhaps, a historical radicalism that is no longer easily accessible to us. It’s hard to overestimate how important and problematic our understanding of that issue is in respect to the way scholars approach and write about avant-gardes. In terms of the question of the accessibility of avant-gardes to revolutionary potential or significance, one of the questions they ask is to what extent contemporary avant-garde scholarship can ensure that the historical avant-gardes are not forgotten without compromising their anti-institutional ambitions. I take this to assume that there is a necessary or historical tension between scholars and avant-garde artists and activists, but that’s not a position either of us would wholly support, is it? So, how should we go about answering such questions?
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Harding, J.M., Sell, M. (2016). Telling the Telling of the Tale: A Dialogue. In: Ferreboeuf, R., Noble, F., Plunkett, T. (eds) Preservation, Radicalism, and the Avant-Garde Canon. Avant-Gardes in Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137474377_2
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