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Choreographies of Plurality: Rethinking Collaboration and Collectivity

  • Daniela Perazzo DommEmail author
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Abstract

Working with conceptualisations of modes of togetherness, Perazzo Domm interrogates Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s collaborative work as a way of thinking/practising with and through notions of community. The chapter analyses the 52 Portraits online series, with film-maker Hugo Glendinning (2016), alongside the collaborative projects Any Table Any Room (2017) and Music For Lectures (2018). Engaging with Roberto Esposito’s theorisation of the alterity and plurality of community, Perazzo Domm addresses and troubles ideas surrounding the relationship between giving and stealing, commitment and mastery as they are articulated in the works: in the chapter, it is argued that these projects possibilise a sense of commonality while also envisioning new modes and understandings of collaborative work.

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  1. 1.Department of Performing ArtsKingston University LondonKingston upon ThamesUK

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