Cyclic repetition and transferred temporalities: Video installation as performative matrix Dr Yuji Sone (Macquarie University) This essay raises questions about mediated presence within performance studies, based on a research project’s nexus of theoretical investigations and practical exploration. I will elucidate the theoretical underpinnings for my recent video installation project, Cadences (7 May – 16 June 2009, Macquarie University Art Gallery). Image 1, Two agents in Cadences (2009), Video installation, Performer: Ros Crisp, Photographed by Effy Alexakis The exhibition project recomposed separate art components ─ video footage of two different dancers (Ros Crisp and Dean Walsh, performing for a video camera), recorded vocal performance (Ruark Lewis’s reading of a poem by Nathaniel Tarn), and digital images of an installation work (Ruark Lewis’s public art work) ─ in a new context, a video installation. The installation aimed to suggest a new way of conceiving artistic interdisciplinarity, focusing on the transference of live performance to mediated forms and the particular 1