Ongoing Reptition
Research and performance project
03.2024 - 08.2024
The research project "Ongoing Repetition" aims to explore how continual repetition, as a structural improvisational method, transforms the body, while allowing the individual rhythm to be maintained and at the same time keeping connection but no need to be synchronized to the external puls and rhythm (from another body, music, medien). Which conditions are necessary for its achievement? As an assessable, transformative and minimalist tool, it unveils different potential by integrating with various mediums, bringing forth new interpretations when placed in different contexts. The research project attempts to invite different individuals to participate, co-prepare, share, and experiment in order to deepen and broaden its possibilities, as well as to delve into its performative potential.
“Ongoing” denotes the continuous flow within the body and consciousness, even during moments of pause, while “repetition” pertains to the recurrence of events in a manner similar to previous occurrences. The “ongoing repetition” has its simplest form of appearance: Start from a motive, which undergoes a transformation process as it is continually repeated. And where it will go, and how, will be the question that opens up its performative potential.
The more socio-philosophical dimension is how I, as an individual, can live, connect and interact with other individuals in this diverse society while maintaining my rhythm.
Through a two-week collaborative group process with Dasha Altukhova, Sandra Stark, and Johanna Schmalöer in August 2024, the movement concept of “ongoing repetition” developed into Naming (2025).