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Rethinking the Performer: Towards a Devising Performance Practice (2018)

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.
typeresearch exposition
date15/09/2017
published08/04/2018
last modified08/04/2018
statuspublished
share statusprivate
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/391025/391476/25/26
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/vis.391025
published inVIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue0. VIS Issue 0


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391339 specificity Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
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391354 Institute Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
391474 neo constume Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
391479 François and Jennifer Francois Sarhan All rights reserved
391487 no say no way trailer Jennifer Torrence and François Sarhan All rights reserved
391501 no say no way trailer Jennifer Torrence François Sarhan All rights reserved
391503 Etudes to become a deer Neo Hülcker All rights reserved
391505 Etudes to become a deer Neo Hülcker All rights reserved
391510 WNR_trailer Peter Swendsen, Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
391546 how to fight final Jennifer Torrence and Carolyn Chen All rights reserved
391548 Jennifer Torrence Wojtek Blecharz Jennifer Torrence and Wojtek Blecharz All rights reserved
391558 Etudes to become deer devising rehearsal Jennifer Torrence and Neo Hülcker All rights reserved
391561 neo rehearsal december Jennifer Torrence and Neo Hülcker All rights reserved
391562 institute set up Jennifer Torrence and Trond Reinholdtsen All rights reserved
391565 jen and trond in office Jennifer Torrence and Trond Reinholdtsen All rights reserved
391566 neo rehearsal december Jennifer Torrence and Neo Hülcker All rights reserved
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391570 Soundtouch in development Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
391572 no say no way development Jennifer Torrence and François Sarhan All rights reserved
391579 graph pdf Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
391582 Composer-Performer Collaboration Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
391609 After filming Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
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391616 Composer-Performer collaborations Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
391808 how to fight final Jennifer Torrence and Carolyn Chen All rights reserved
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391816 no say no way trailer Jennifer Torrence & François Sarhan All rights reserved
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392936 how to fight final Jennifer Torrence and Carolyn Chen All rights reserved
392938 Screen Shot 2017-09-26 at 4.36.43 AM Peter Swendsen & Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
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412980 Wojtek Composing Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
413029 Etudes ASMR Jennifer Torrence, Neo Hülcker All rights reserved
413030 In performance Neo Jennifer Torrence and Neo Hülcker All rights reserved
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417188 Research for body pieces Jennifer Torrence and Trond Reinholdtsen All rights reserved
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434258 Rethinking the Performer: Towards a Devising Performance Practice Jennifer Torrence All rights reserved
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