Kim Sawchuk Robert Prenovault Repeating Oneself
OBORO
Repeating Oneself is a multi-media bilingual lecture/performance. In it a theorist, whose primary mediums are concepts and the written word, and a sculptor, who thinks in materials and volumes, explore the function of repetition in language, art, and other aspects of contemporary life. The performance is structured in three sections: a repetitious dialogue on the function of repetition in different discursive terrains; a body mould in which the self quite literally is repeated; and the finale, in which we contemplate how repetition isn't simply about making copies from originals, or about imitating a dialectic of power between sculptor and model, but much more. In Repeating Oneself we are also concerned with: duration and time in nature, postindustrial society and the city, the corporeality of mediation, simulation and experience; the continual unfolding of interior and exterior space, the dialectic thinking that maintains a binary oppositional structure.
OBORO
I have been involved in various radio projects over the past 5 years, and I frequently write on contemporary art and culture. I also teach in the department of Communication Studies, Concordia University. As a writer and teacher I desire to extend the boundaries of acceptable academic conduct. Exploring the performative potential of the lecture is one way to communicate the corporeal dimension of ideas, a dimension that is often over-looked ir under-rated.
As a Franco-Manitoban I was brought up between two cultures. From this emerged the habit – and the pleasure – of playing within interstices. Created from our own bad habit of taking seriously the dichotomies which we elaborate in order to assume our environment, these empty lots are sites wherein it is still possible to ask questions without answers.