Kartsaki, Eirini (2016) Farewell to Farewell: Impossible Endings and Unfinished Finitudes. In: On Repetition Writing, Performance and Art. Intellect (UK), pp. 195-210. ISBN 9781783205776. Official URL: https://www.intellectbooks.com/on-repetition
Kartsaki, Eirini (2016) Farewell to Farewell: Impossible Endings and Unfinished Finitudes. In: On Repetition Writing, Performance and Art. Intellect (UK), pp. 195-210. ISBN 9781783205776. Official URL: https://www.intellectbooks.com/on-repetition
Kartsaki, Eirini (2016) Farewell to Farewell: Impossible Endings and Unfinished Finitudes. In: On Repetition Writing, Performance and Art. Intellect (UK), pp. 195-210. ISBN 9781783205776. Official URL: https://www.intellectbooks.com/on-repetition
Abstract
This chapter accounts for the impossible, yet desired ending of returning to re-experience a particular event; as examples of study, it uses T. J. Clark’s The Sight of Death, Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape as well as Pina Bausch’s Béla Bartók’s Opera: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle in order to account for a simultaneous longing and fear to end the process of returning. Such experience aims to comprehend the uncontainable event, to finish its unfinished business. The unresolved event demands a return to it, in order to be able to say, finally, but not once and for all, farewell to farewell. The following writing argues that endings, like performance itself, escape from us, forming an experience that is not quite yet and that specific uses of repetition in movement, structure or writing invite the spectator to go back to them, again and again, in an attempt to restore or repair the experience, or come to terms with it.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Art |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > East 15 Acting School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2021 14:53 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 19:26 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/23585 |