Rethinking the Performer: Towards a Devising Performance Practice

Jennifer Torrence

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The performer’s perspective and the impact of collaboration on the performer’s artistic practice is often overlooked in frameworks designed to analyze collaboration in contemporary music. The conception of what a performer is ‘for’ in the development of a new musical piece is, at least in part, what constitutes a performer’s artistic practice, whether that is the performer as an interpreter and executor of scores, as an adviser to the composer, and/or as a co-creating deviser. The interpreter-adviser-deviser model is conceived as a framework for considering the ways composer-performer collaborations can influence and contribute to the construction of a performer’s artistic practice and subjectivity. Collaboration is not only a method of creating new works, it's also a method for creating artistic practices. Drawing on examples of devised practices as exhibited in Jennifer Torrence’s artistic research, practices which are communicated through reflections, dialogues, images, and videos, the article ultimately argues that it is the performer as deviser that offers the most radical rethinking of the purpose, role, and potential of the performer in contemporary music collaboration.

type	research exposition
date	15/09/2017
published	08/04/2018
last modified	08/04/2018
status	published
license	All rights reserved
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/391025/391476/25/26
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/vis.391025
published in	VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	0. VIS Issue 0

name	INSTITUTE FOR POST-HUMAN PERFORMANCE
copyright	2017 Jennifer Torrence and Trond Reinholdtsen
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usages	video, video

name	Concept
copyright	2017 Jennifer Torrence
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usages	picture, picture

name	IMG_1151
copyright	2017 Jennifer Torrence
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name	Emailing with Peter Swendsen
copyright	Jennifer Torrence
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name	Specificity
copyright	Jennifer Torrence
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name	Lunch
copyright	Jennifer Torrence
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usages	picture, picture

name	no say no way trailer
copyright	Jennifer Torrence François Sarhan
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usages	video

name	Screen Shot 2017-09-26 at 5.34.52 AM
copyright	Neo Hülcker
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usages	picture

name	WNR_trailer
copyright	Peter Swendsen, Jennifer Torrence
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usages	video, video

name	Jennifer Torrence Wojtek Blecharz
copyright	Jennifer Torrence and Wojtek Blecharz
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usages	video

name	Etudes to become deer devising rehearsal
copyright	Jennifer Torrence and Neo Hülcker
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usages	video, video

name	institute set up
copyright	Jennifer Torrence and Trond Reinholdtsen
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usages	video, video

name	neo rehearsal december
copyright	Jennifer Torrence and Neo Hülcker
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usages	video, video

name	jen and trond in office
copyright	Jennifer Torrence and Trond Reinholdtsen
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usages	video, video

name	Soundtouch in development
copyright	Jennifer Torrence
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usages	picture

name	no say no way development
copyright	Jennifer Torrence and François Sarhan
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usages	video

name	PeterSwendsenJenniferTorrence
copyright	Tanya Rosen-Jones
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usages	picture, picture

name	filming with neo
copyright	Jennifer Torrence
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usages	picture, picture

name	making of wnr
copyright	Peter Swendsen
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usages	picture, picture

name	how to fight final
copyright	Jennifer Torrence and Carolyn Chen
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usages	video

name	IMG_4225
copyright	Peter Swendsen
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usages	picture, picture

name	Screen Shot 2017-09-26 at 4.36.43 AM
copyright	Peter Swendsen & Jennifer Torrence
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usages	picture, picture

name	how to fight final
copyright	Jennifer Torrence and Carolyn Chen
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usages	video

name	Sharing commission
copyright	Jennifer Torrence
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usages	picture

name	neo constume
copyright	Jennifer Torrence
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usages	picture

name	Etudes to become a deer
copyright	Neo Hülcker
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usages	picture

name	WNR instruments
copyright	Peter Swendsen
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usages	picture

name	Recording improvisations with rope
copyright	Peter Swendsen
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usages	picture

name	testing scenography/technology
copyright	Peter Swendsen
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usages	picture

name	Recording
copyright	Peter Swendsen
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usages	picture

name	In performance Neo
copyright	Jennifer Torrence and Neo Hülcker
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usages	picture

name	François and Jennifer
copyright	Francois Sarhan
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usages	picture, picture

name	interior 2
copyright	Jennifer Torrence
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usages	picture

name	Research for body pieces
copyright	Jennifer Torrence and Trond Reinholdtsen
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usages	video

name	Figure 1
copyright	Jennifer Torrence
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usages	picture

name	Screen Shot 2017-12-07 at 13.03.48
copyright	Jennifer Torrence
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usages	picture

name	how to fight final
copyright	Jennifer Torrence and Carolyn Chen
license	All rights reserved
usages	video

name	how to fight final
copyright	Jennifer Torrence and Carolyn Chen
license	All rights reserved
usages	video

name	WNR_trailer_hq
copyright	Peter Swendsen & Jennifer Torrence
license	All rights reserved
usages	video

name	no say no way trailer
copyright	Jennifer Torrence & François Sarhan
license	All rights reserved
usages	video

name	INSTITUTE FOR POST-HUMAN PERFORMANCE PRACTICE
copyright	Jennifer Torrence and Trond Reinholdtsen
license	All rights reserved
usages	video

name	Etudes to become a deer
copyright	Neo Hülcker, Jennifer Torrence
license	All rights reserved
usages	picture

name	Sound Touch
copyright	Jennifer Torrence
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usages	picture

name	PeterSwendsenJenniferTorrence-102
copyright	Jennifer Torrence, Peter Swendsen
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name	Rethinking the Performer pdf
copyright	Jennifer Torrence
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