Repeat-Revolution: Forms of Partaker Agency in the Sound Works of Cage, Holmqvist and Bruys

The works of composer John Cage and sound artist Nathalie Bruys will be coupled to my notion of partaker agency. The participatory aspects will be examined via Susanne Langer and Karen Barad helping to understand that sound has a vital form with its own agency. Supporting Cage’s interest in sound as music, I will elaborate on the Buddhist kōan and Kototama chants. The tension between repetition regarded as similitude or difference, will be further examined via the works of Karl Holmqvist and Peter Handke. Arriving at the conclusion, via Jacques Derrida, that repetition might serve as a double mirror, opening up a way out of the realm of logic.

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Saskia Isabella Maria Korsten

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Publication date: August 2019

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.34

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Conference name: RE:SOUND 2019 – 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology

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Conference location: Aalborg, Denmark

Conference date: August 20-23, 2019

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Conference theme: Media Art, Science, and Technology

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[1] K. Barad 2003 Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter comes to Matter Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28 3 801 831

[2] N. Bruys 2000 aka KODI I am you https://soundcloud.com/spiripirate/i-am-you-kodi August 2019

[3] N.. Bruys 2009 On her website Frequency Elixir http://www.nathaliebruys.com/installations/frequency-elixer/ August 2019

[4] N. Bruys 2011 On her website Galactic Computer Portal Machine : http://www.nathaliebruys.com/installations/galactic-computer-portal-machine/ August 2019

[5] J. Cage 1992 An interview with John Cage as part of the documentary Écoute Miroslav Sebestik https://vimeo.com/23081468 August 2019

[6] J.. Cage 2013 Silence Middletown Wesleyan University Press

[7] J. Derrida 1968 Differance Bulletin de la Societe francaise de philosophie July-September LXII 3 73 101

[8] A. Dorner 1958 The Way Beyond ‘Art’ New York New York University Press

[9] B. Groys 2009 Herhaling versus Vooruitgang (Repetition versus Progression) Now is the Time 20 29

[10] K. Holmqvist 2012 K Bergen JRP Ringier

[11] K. Holmqvist 2018 NUMBERS performed at Spike Berlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbIyMC9B7zM August 2019

[12] K. Holmqvist 2019 Interview at Camden Arts Centre https://vimeo.com/163537925 August 2019

[13] R. Kelomees 2019 Reversing the spectator paradigm: symbiotic interaction and the ‘gaze’ of the artwork Digital Creativity

[14] B. Knapp 1990 Peter Handke’s Kaspar: The Mechanics of Language— A Fractionating Schizophrenic Theatrical Event Studies in 20th Century Literature 14 2 article 8

[15] S. I. M. Korsten 2018 Partaker Agency: Entanglement of agencies in artworks by Bekirovic and Abramovic Politics of the Machines

[16] K. Kwastek 2013 Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art Cambridge MIT Press

[17] S. Langer 1953 Feeling and Form New York Charles Scribner’s Sons

[18] B. Massumi 2007 The Thinking Feeling of What Happens Rotterdam V2_Publishing/NAi Publishers

[19] N. M. Nakazono 1979 1983 Inochi, The Book of LIfe Santa Fe Kototama Institute

[20] Suzuki Roshi Online archive on http://suzukiroshi.sfzc.org/archives/index.cgi/681012BV.html?seemore=y August 2019

[21] J. Wada in the video Kototama Chant - Jack Wada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buSKwZWILjg 14 August 2019

[22] P. Wienpahl 1965 On the Meaninglessness of Philosophical Questions Philosophy East and West April 15 2

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