In a dim, enclosed tunnel, we move back and forth in a repetitive, minimal, almost mechanical manner. Within what appears to be meaningless repetition, we introduce slight variations in each return: a shift in rhythm, a delay in gesture, a glance that slightly diverges. These subtle changes ensure that no cycle is ever truly the same.
The work is inspired by Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition, which proposes that difference is not static but generative — repetition is never pure reproduction, but the creation of something new through variation. Nietzsche’s concept of eternal recurrence further reminds us that even if all things return, they never repeat identically — for time itself is irreproducible.
This performance responds to the condition of mechanical labor and routine in contemporary society. Through the body’s persistent movement in space, it seeks to surface the often-overlooked “minor differences” and construct a philosophical response to the repetitiveness of modern life.
Hana Kawanishi / Kanong Duan / Belenika Eichhorn / Jun Luo / Yu Kinoshita / Berna Esra Ayzit / Aleksandr Bukin / Yimei Zheng
Interdisciplinary project Distilling Magic – with visual art and music
University of the Arts Bremen (HfK Bremen)
MS Dauerwelle, Bremen
21.June. \ 07.July.2024