Chloé Déchery | Erin Brannigan
A research event marking the publication of Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance; A Duet Without You and Practice as Research by Chloé Déchery.
You are invited to attend the research event following the book launch of Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance; A Duet Without You and Practice as Research, edited by performance-maker, writer and academic Chloé Déchery.
The book, published with Intellect in the Playtext collection in early 2023, offers a multi-modal perspective into the collaborative process that informed the making of the performance piece A Duet Without You created and performed in the UK between 2015 and 2016. More broadly, it offers to examine the politics of collaboration and authorship as they unfold in the rehearsal room as well as on stage, and, more widely in the public sphere..
During the event, Chloé Déchery will introduce the conceptual and methodological thinking behind the book and will delve into the practice research that informed the creative process of the performance. A discussion will then be taking place with scholar Erin Brannigan and will open out to those present.
This presentation will be an opportunity to exchange more broadly on practice research methodologies around performance writing, collaborative creation and research processes.
This event is presented by the UNSW Intermedial Composition Network in association with the Faculty of Arts, Architecture and Design, School of Arts and Media and ReadyMade Works.
Image credit Marco Berardi.
LIVE EVENT & VENUE INFORMATION
ReadyMade Works is located at 1/247-257 Bulwara Rd, Ultimo NSW 2007. Please note this is a live event only, and will not be available via livestream.
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Erin Brannigan is Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance at the University of New South Wales. She is of Irish and Danish political exile, convict, and settler descent. Her publications include Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), Bodies of Thought: 12 Australian Choreographers, co-edited with Virginia Baxter (Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2014), Choreography, Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s -1970s (London: Routledge, 2022) and The Persistence of Dance: Choreography as Concept and Material in Contemporary Art (Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2023).
Chloé Déchery is a performance-make, writer, and Lecturer in Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Paris 8 in Saint-Denis, France. Currently on leave, Chloé Déchery lives and works in Australia, on Dharawal land, in the coastal town of Bundeena.
Chloé Déchery’s research interests include everyday corporeality and embodiment; authorship and creative labour; the atmospheric turn and eco-feminism in performance. She is the co-director of Performer Les Savoirs / Performing Knowledge; a research programme and curatorial platform that exists since 2018. Recent publications include Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance: A Duet Without You and Practice as Research (ed), Intellect, 2023; Artist.es-Chercheur.es, Chercheur.es-Artistes, Performer Les Savoirs (eds. w Marion Boudier, ArTeC/les presses du réel, 2022) and theatre academic journals Staging Atmospheres: Theatre and the Atmospheric Turn, (eds. w Martin Welton), ambiances [online], volumes 1 and 2, issues 6 and 7, 2020 and 2021. Atmosphères en scène : le heater à l’ère du tournant atmosphérique.
Chloé Déchery is a performance-maker whose works span across experimental theatre, conceptual choreography and autobiographical performance, questioning social representation and politics identity while playfully deconstructing the mechanisms of the theatrical machinery. Her work, supported by Arts Council England, British Council and the Institut français have been shown in the UK, France, Estonia and Australia. For more information, please visit: http://www.chloedechery.com
Photo by Karen Paulina Biswewl
