Mariella Greil, University of Chester
Time Said (performative lecture)

For Documentation see the Repeat Repeat exhibition catalogue ‘Negotiated Positions’ and the Performing Arts Staff web pages

And is not human life in many parts of the earth governed to this day less by time than by weather, and thus by an unquantifable dimension which disregards linear regularity, does not progress constantly forward but moves in eddies, is marked by episodes of congestion and irruption, recurs in ever-changing form, and evolves in no one knows what direction?“(W.G. Sebald)
I am refering to Henri Lefebvres claim of interconnectivity of theory and practice when I propose to present a „performative lecture“ at the „repeat, repeat“ conference.

Repetition doesn’t imply regularity but is often associated with repetition. I explore the territory of temporariness of the perception of repetition.
I aim to interweave the practice of bodily discourse with theoretical negotiations and will consider repetition as a tool for composition or a way of proceeding in live subjectivity - claiming relationality between them.
I propose to share a route of moving thoughts with the implicated1 (– formerly known as) audience and re-consider the concept of repetition in choreographic processes as well as in the personal chronology
of events throughout life. – In other words the chronology inherent in re-visiting situations in our personal history focusing on how we repeat ourselves on a personal as well as on a collective level.