Afterword: Repitition or recognition?/ Clare Foster. Of secret signals, absent masters and the trembling of the contours: Walter Benjamin, Yvonne Rainer and the repeatability of gesture / Swen Steinhäuser -- All the home's a stage: uncanny encounters between auditorium and Oikos / Alan Read -- Repetition as technology of the numinous in performance: The Artist Is Present by Marina Abramović / Silvia Battista -- When is a joke not a joke? Reading (and re-reading) Stewart Lee's 'The Rap Singers' / Emma Bennett -- The crying channel / Claire Hind and Gary Winters -- The cyclical pleasures and deaths of symbolization: How to Become a Cupcake/ The Famous' Adaptation of Frankenstein / Lauren Barri Holstein -- A pointless pastime? Early nineteenth-century pin-prick imagery/ Alice Barnaby -- Repeated acts of intimacy and harm in Andrea Brady's Mutability: Scripts for Infancy / Gareth Farmer -- 'I Was Not HEARD': trauma and articulation in the poetry of Geraldine Monk / Linda Kemp -- Déjà-vu, doubles and dread: the uncanny and Christopher Smith's Triangle / Ruth McPhee -- Farewell to farewell: impossible endings and unfinished finitudes/ Eirini Kartsaki -- Afterword: Repitition or recognition?/ Clare Foster.
Summary:
"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." --back cover.
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