Performance Research Volume 20 Issue 5
On Repetition
Issue editors: Eirini Kartsaki and Theron Schmidt
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2015) 20:5
‘The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love,’ wrote Søren Kierkegaard in 1843 in the guise of Constantin Constantius, describing his attempt to relive a love affair that was always-already lost. But to love repetition is to love impossibility and paradox, and a number of these contrary impulses are foregrounded in On Repetition: between originality and repeatability, between boredom and excitement, and between the now of performance and the longed-for not yet or never again. Explored in relation to ritual, protest, gender, and trauma, as well as dance, theatre, and performance, this issue combines perspectives from artists and scholars; and, as to attend to repetition is to attend to the form of writing itself, it encourages textual interventions that blur the lines between the two.
Editorial : On Repetition
Eirini Kartsaki , Theron Schmidt
pp. 1 - 3
Some people will do anything to keep themselves from being moved
Theron Schmidt
pp. 4 - 9
Repetition Compulsion: How I learned to love doing it again
Rachel Gomme
pp. 10 - 11
To be Re-Bitten and to Re-Become : Examining repeated embodied acts in ritual performance
Jerri Daboo
pp. 12 - 21
Silence and Alterity in a Recitation of the Qur’an
Christopher Braddock
pp. 22 - 29
A Professional Body : Remembering, repeating and working out masculinities in fin-de-siècle physical culture
Broderick D. V. Chow
pp. 30 - 41
Queer Tools : An Intervention
Stacy Holman Jones, Anne Harris
pp. 42 - 43
Repeating Repetition : Trauma and performance
Suzanne Little
pp. 44 - 50
Restaging the anxiety of the image
Adrian Kear
pp. 51 - 62
Staging an Exilic Autobiography : On the pleasures and frustrations of repetitions and returns
Natasha Davis, Yana Meerzon
pp. 63 - 69
24 Frames in Commemoration of You : The matter and material I always return to in my studio
Sheila Ghelani
pp. 70 - 71
Always in Translation : A walking dialogue
Mary Paterson, Rajni Shah
pp. 72 - 80
Body Not Fit For Purpose
Jonathan Burrows
pp. 81 - 86
Live Forever / In fragments, to begin …
Tim Etchells
pp. 87 - 95
Repetition Is Repetition Is Until It Isn't: DO THE FLIP
Andrew Poppy
pp. 96 - 97
Repeating Rosas danst Rosas : On the transmission of dance knowledge
Laura Karreman
pp. 98 - 107
Fictional Realness : Towards a colloquial performance practice
Owen G. Parry
pp. 108 - 115
Re-Turning to The Show : Repetition and the construction of spaces of decision, affect and creative possibility
Katerina Paramana
pp. 116 - 124
Circular Paths of Pleasure in Marco Berrettini’s iFeel2
Eirini Kartsaki
pp. 125 - 131
Palinode of Glass
Matthew Goulish
pp. 132 - 133
Joy in Repetition : Critical genealogies of musical minimalism
Nicholas Till
pp. 134 - 137
On Repetition in Ragnar Kjartansson and The National’s A Lot of Sorrow
Patrick Nickleson
pp. 138 - 140
Notes on Contributors
pp. 141 - 142
