Mr. Wampach in a way did just that as he repurposed material associated with these artistic traditions and created distance from it by recontextualizing it so viewers would be forced to re-examine their habitual responses.
Twenty-first century databases of indigenous African medico-botanical knowledge need to assure that it is recontextualized historically and socially; that its multiplicity, visuality, and orality are retained; and that "articulation work" is done to make sure that design choices and use are cognitively just.
"They are like reliquaries -- it's not about the artist recontextualizing it -- it's all about him and his greatness," said Sachs, reflecting on the divinity of the Grandfather of Soul.
An early act of postmodern appropriation, "Innocence Unprotected" takes a curious cinematic artifact — the first Serbian talkie, also titled "Innocence Unprotected" and produced during the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia by a Belgrade weightlifter and escape artist — and recontextualizes it as a mordant national epic.
"It's less about taking content from our past and recontextualizing it and more about finding new and interesting ways to use technology to have more conversations with our fans," she added.
It's crazy to participate in giving something new life it's almost like recontextualizing it.
She sings about desire, but it feels disembodied, recontextualized.
That set up is funny because it has been recontextualized by the pun on the word "smell", which is made to have more than one identity when put into a new context.
it can be recontextualized, redistributed, reimagined.
Douglas McGowan's 2013 compilation record, I Am the Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America, 1950 1990 (Light in the Attic Records), recontextualizes the genre brilliantly and has managed to catch the attention of many who previously overlooked it.
