repetition #2

 

6.11.2021 3PM @gallerygundulagruber closing party for “burnt truth” performance with Matt Mottel, Jasper Stadhouders & participants of the audience

a participative performance of a rehearsal: a repetitive dance

repetition 6.11.21 3pm mmm mr. matt mottel & margareta klose @ggg re-petere means to bring or get something back again, to re-cognize, to re-think, to remember, to lead back, to attribute something to something. Keti Chukhrov writes about the paradox of repetition as transtemporality: the transposition from the mundane mode of reality to that of repetitive, nonsensical and excessive performance. The first reality of being and life turns into a contradiction of life, evolving from it, but accelerating it aesthetically and performatively. Gilles Deleuze claims that such a mode of performative repetition is torn away from any chronic temporality, remaining without any semblance to the original.1 Repetition is the paradox of a situation and therefore not an analogy, but solitary. The connection between the two realities is paradoxically lost. Deleuze describes this paradox as the incapacity to know what happened, unless there is a possibility of transposing it in repetition: “When the consciousness of the knowledge or the working through the memory is missing, the knowledge in itself is only the repetition of its object. It is played, repeated, enacted instead of being known.”2 The strange word intrudes the body like a virus and transforms and repeats itself as pulsating quotation which can never be explained. The less I know, the more I have to practice and repeat – and is REPETITION THE BEST WAY TO LEARN?3    

1 Keti Chukhrov, Repetition as the performative syndrome of dying, in: Performance and Philosophy Vol. 4, NO 2 (2019), 477.   

2 Gilles Deleuze, Difference and repetition, Bloomsbury Publishing London 2001, 14.    

3 Jenny Holzer truism.

repetition #1

repetition                                                                                                                     

Karaoke 26.9.2021 18 – 19 Uhr Friedensbim Wien/Vienna

https://www.friedensbim.com/programm

repetition repeats repetition

Central themes in the music are repetition, alienation, man-machine, pain, desire and sexuality, love, liberty and the power of the erotic and their relation to revolt. My voice are many voices: The strange word intrudes the body like a virus and repeats itself as pulsating quotation which can never be explained.

Zentrale Themen der Musik sind Wiederholung, Entfremdung, Mensch-Maschine, Schmerz, Verlangen, Sexualität, Liebe, Freiheit und die Macht der Erotik und deren Beziehung zur Revolte. Meine Stimme sind viele Stimmen: Das fremde Wort durchdringt wie ein Virus den Körper und wiederholt sich als pulsierendes Zitat, das sich niemals völlig explizieren lässt.

 

 

photos: Liliane-Sarah Kölbl

videos: Doris Steinbichler