"Reenactment" refers to the act of recreating or replaying an event from the past, often in a theatrical or educational manner, to gain a better understanding or appreciation of that particular time period or event. Full definition
The exhibition will balance the Cuban artist's early performances — such as Tribute to Ana Mendieta, 1985 — 96, a series of reenactments of the older artist's body works, and Studio Study, 1996, an endurance piece in which she stood for hours on a high pedestal while holding raw meat — with pieces that followed her development of Arte de Conducta, or the «Art of Behavior,» around 2002. (artforum.com)
Warm Springs works better as a drama than as a historical reenactment of events. (qwipster.net)
«Life, Once More: Forms of Reenactment in Contemporary Art,» at Rotterdam's Witte de With in 2005, queried the status of such representations of historical actions and events, and to this end included Sullivan's aforementioned piece along with, for instance, the earlier example of Andrea Fraser's Kunst muss hangen (Art Must Hang), 2001, a video depicting Fraser's own performance of a drunken speech once given by Martin Kippenberger. (highbeam.com)