On Repetition

Writing, Performance and Art

By: Eirini Kartsaki (Editor)

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eBook | 1 July 2016 | Edition Number 1

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On Repetition aims to unpack the different uses and functions of repetition within contemporary performance, dance practices, craft and writing. The collection, edited by Eirini Kartsaki, explores repetition in relation to intimacy, laughter, technology, familiarity and fear - proposing a new vocabulary for understanding what is at stake in works that repeat. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, linguistics, sociology and performance studies - and employing case studies from a range of practices - the essays presented here combine to form a unique interdisciplinary exploration of the functions of repetition in contemporary culture.

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'"Repetition creates bliss", Roland Barthes once argued. In an era in which we hear repetition and think strain, when the repeated gesture is a sign for alienated labour, boredom or the abandonment of thought, this collection of essays shows how repetition can be a figure of creativity - not only in the art forms of visual art, dance, performance and poetry which are its subjects, but also in the lived experiences of work, desire, play and political solidarity. Deeply insightful and more than a little compulsive, these explorations of repetition reveal a tactic and a drive at the heart of art's relationship to contemporary spaces and bodies'