Drawing out the particularities of collaborative work, Entanglements of Two: A Series of Duets considers the duo as a microcosm of humankind. Focusing on a ten-year period in the work of collaborative performance maker Karen Christopher, the book explores the practical, philosophical, and aesthetic implications of working in pairs and offers wider reflections on the duet as a concept in artistic and social life. The twenty-five pieces in the collection—from an international group of collaborators, artists, and performance scholars, alongside writing from related disciplines, including linguistics, physics, poetry, and theology—offer critical reflections on artistic collaboration and entanglement and contemplate their significance on an interpersonal and global level. A foreword by writer and artist Season Butler rounds out this essential volume.
Table of Contents
[1]
Opening gambit
Karen Christopher
[2]
Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects
Duet collaborations, 2010-21
[3]
Foreword
Season Butler
[4]
Introductory fragment #1: the two of you
Karen Christopher
[5]
Between Two Somethings
J. R. Carpenter
[6]
Duet Walk
Karen Christopher & Mary Paterson
[7]
Resonance of Two
Karen Christopher
[8]
Six Practices of Learning Together in Havruta
Orit Kent
[9]
Introductory fragment #2: heart and lungs
Karen Christopher
[10]
Consider This (Control Signal)
Mary Paterson
[11]
Staying with the tremble
Eirini Kartsaki
[12]
What never stops?
Joe Kelleher
[13]
Invisible partners remain themselves inside
Litó Walkey
[14]
The Promise of More to Come (So Below)
Mary Paterson
[15]
On creating a climate of attention: the composition of our work
Karen Christopher & Sophie Grodin
[16]
Not so much balanced as balancing (miles & miles)
Mary Paterson
[17]
The collaborative artistic working process of Control Signal:
A drama-linguistic exploration of the shifting of roles
Andrea Milde
[18]
Introductory fragment #3: tangled
Karen Christopher
[19]
Imagining Seven Falls
Mary Paterson
[20]
Introductory fragment #4: a lot of rope
Karen Christopher
[21]
Always On Uneven Ground
Rajni Shah
[22]
TwoFold: Questions
Mary Paterson
[23]
A Physics Duet
David Berman
[24]
Conclusion
I have been thinking of you this whole time
Mary Paterson
[25]
Diffractions: record of a passage
David Williams
[26]
Contributors’ biographies