22-24 September, 2016
Ljubljana, Slovenia. REPETITION/S: Performance and Philosophy in Ljubljana an
academic & artistic event
REPETITION/S: Performance and
Philosophy in Ljubljana
an academic & artistic
event
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dates: 22-24 September, 2016
Deadline for submissions: April
30, 2016
Confirmed participants:
Andrew Benjamin (Monash
University, Melbourne)
Justin Clemens (University of
Melbourne)
Keti Chukhrov (Russian State
University for the Humanities, Moscow)
Mladen Dolar (University of
Ljubljana)
Bojana Kunst (Justus Liebig
University Giessen)
Freddie Rokem (Tel Aviv
University)
Oxana Timofeeva (European
University at St Petersburg)
Samo Tomšič (Humboldt
University Berlin)
Alenka Zupančič (Slovenian
Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana)
Call for Papers &
Performances:
Repetition, as a pivotal
concept in contemporary theory and aesthetic practice, announces a movement
away from logics of representation. Where the concept of representation had
once predominated in attempts to think and enact the world, Alenka Zupančič
notes that with the arrival of Deleuze, the shift from previous modes of thought
“takes the form of a straightforward conceptual war: repetition against
representation” (2008: 149-150). This conceptual warfare has perhaps nowhere
laid out its stakes more clearly than on the contemporary scene of artistic
practices. Within the domains of the visual, sonic and performing arts and
their theorisations, the tensions between repetition and representation map out
a common ground of encounter. Contemporary investigations into this contested
territory are increasingly challenging the very modalities and terms in which
both art and philosophy are practiced, or performed.
Invoking the concepts of both
time and space as constitutive aspects, the problem of repetition raises
topical questions of, on the one hand, processes of perception, (re)cognition,
thought, memory, habit, and speech; and on the other, the dynamics of economic
structures and historical processes. The notion of repetition also opens onto
many other key questions being posed in and by contemporary philosophical and
aesthetic practices: questions of the relations between body and thought,
between the structure and the exception, between content and form. There is,
moreover, no single or unified notion of repetition: rather, a number of
divergent philosophical ontologies emerge, each taking the concept as its point
of departure, and developing in dialogue with (amongst others) Hegelian and
Marxist dialectics, Nietzsche’s idea of the eternal return, the Kierkegaardian
concept of repetition, psychoanalytic theorisations with Freud’s Wiederholungszwang
and Lacan’s automatisme de répétition and instance de la lettre, linguistic
performativity, Derridean iterability and différance, and Deleuzian repetition
as the production of difference.
Today, contemporary
developments in the increasingly intertwined fields of philosophy and
performance call for a renewed inquiry into the question of repetition. With
its unique critique of ideology arising from a synthesis of German Idealism and
Lacanian psychoanalysis, the Ljubljana School (Dolar, Zupančič, Žižek et al.)
continues to furnish important theorisations of repetition and performance as
they pertain to subjectivity and the political. One of the primary aims of REPETITION/S
will be to investigate and develop the usefulness of the Ljubljana School’s
theorisations for the emerging field of Performance Philosophy. The city is a
major centre of art practice, with a specific strength in performing arts, and
2016 is Ljubljana’s first year as an UNESCO City of Literature. Scheduled to
coincide with the City Museum of Ljubljana’s art & performance festival,
the academic and artistic events constituting REPETITION/S will be co-hosted by
the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture and the University of Ljubljana.
In the experimental spirit of
Performance Philosophy, we seek to host a polydisciplinary event bringing
together a variety of scholars and artists. We encourage creative, engaged
approaches to the event’s terms of investigation. In addition to papers we
particularly invite performative lectures, exercises of or experiments with
repetition, workshops, cross-disciplinary panel discussions, new media
presentations, and public interventions. We welcome propositions for 20-minute
presentations, 60-minute 3-person panels, workshops or performances up to a
maximum of 60 minutes. Please note that while the time-limit for performances
is negotiable, REPETITION/S can provide only venue space and basic audio-visual
equipment – artists are therefore encouraged to propose relatively self-reliant
contributions in terms of resources. However, we welcome enquiries and are
happy to discuss possibilities for presentation.
Please send a 300-word
abstract, including a title and a brief bio-bibliography, in either Word or PDF
format to contact@repetitions2016.org.
The deadline for submission is April 30, 2016.
Suggested topics/questions:
– Traditions of repetition:
Hegel – Nietzsche – Kierkegaard – Deleuze – Lacan – Badiou (etc.)
– Repetition, resistance,
revolution
– Repetition, economy and
structures of power
– Repetition and the
Unrepeatable
– ‘New materialisms’ &
repetition
– Repetition beyond, or
behind, representation
– Performing repetition
– On repetition and the new
– Repetition and exception:
between a gap and a surplus
– Repetition / rehearsal /
ritual
– The temporality of
repetition
– “First as tragedy, then as
farce”
– Technological revolutions,
digital repetitions
– Repetition terminable or
interminable
Organising Committee:
Bara Kolenc (Ljubljana,
Slovenia)
Gregor Moder (Ljubljana,
Slovenia)
Anna Street (Sorbonne, France)
Ben Hjorth (Monash, Australia)
Advisory Board Members:
Elisabeth Angel-Perez,
Paris-Sorbonne University
Andrew Benjamin, Monash
University, Melbourne
Laura Cull, University of
Surrey
Will Daddario, Illinois State
University
Mladen Dolar, University of
Ljubljana
Simon Kardum, Kino Šiška
Center for Urban Culture
Peter Klepec, Slovenian
Academy of Sciences and Arts
Mirt Komel, Aufhebung
International Hegelian Association
Lev Kreft, University of
Ljubljana
Nikolaus Müller-Schöll, Goethe
University of Frankfurt
Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv
University
Polona Tratnik, Slovenian
Society for Aesthetics
Alenka Zupančič, Slovenian
Academy of Sciences and Arts
The conference is sponsored by
the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, the City Museum of
Ljubljana, the Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, the Aufhebung Association,
the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Monash
University, the Australian Slovenian Academic Association, and the research
laboratories VALE and PRITEPS at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, in
partnership with the international research network Performance Philosophy.
For more information, please
visit the website at www.repetitions2016.org.
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