Bernhard Lang – teatr powtórzeń
Bernhard Lang – Theater of Repetitions

Summary/Abstract: The author describes the work of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang in the context of Gilles Deleuze's thoughts on aesthetics. In his first musical/theatrical work, Theater der Wiederholungen (Theater of Repetitions, 2002), Lang literally tried to translate the multiplicity and complexity of the notions of Difference and Repetition into the medium of music. Lang joins Deleuze in opposing the theater of repetitions – the theater of representation, generating dichotomous divisions between the ideal and the imperfect or imitative. Lang is guided by the conviction that "all that exists is only all-encompassing Difference, which is the basic principle of existence and further repetitions of this differentiating principle, generating further Differences.”

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