Justin Tornow, Performance as Responsive Practice

8-9:30 pm, including post-show processing between artists and audience

Equal parts workshop and artistic activity, Justin Tornow has developed an event that seeks to expand the going definitions of “performance.” With co-authorship, personal interpretation, and immediacy as central goals of the project, participants will be introduced to the ease and utility of scores in art — simply put, scores are instructions for artistic activity. We will discuss the history of using scores for performance and make some of our own to create/affect the soundscape, lighting, and physical movement of bodies and objects in the space. Avoiding limiting ideas about the right and wrong ways to perform, we can allow for peaceful experimentation and delight in a shared experience.

Our time together will culminate in a unique, one-time-only happening, where individual energies, ideas, and contributions collide.

This event is part of The Commons Festival, hosted by Carolina Performing Arts.

Tickets are available on Eventbrite only.

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The Commons is a new initiative devoted to supporting performing artists and fostering local creative community and discourse in and around the Triangle.

Supported by Carolina Performing Arts, this inaugural program offers a four-week residency, billing in a public festival at CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio, and critical feedback for the three selected locally-based artists whose applications most keenly demonstrate that their intended performance is pressing for this time, place, and community. The selected projects question and break accepted performance conventions, invite audience co-creation, and take bold artistic risks.

Each artist has been assigned an embedded writer to write about the artist’s process throughout the residency and about the final performance. These pieces are available to read on INDY Week’s website in a special section, edited by Ripp and INDY Week’s Arts and Culture Managing Editor Brian Howe. Read more here: https://indyweek.com/the-commons-crit

The Commons Festival will feature performances by the selected artists, as well as additional events, from networking to roundtables on performance criticism/arts writing. Fellowships also include a stipend. We’re grateful to INDY Week, the UNC Communication Department, and UNC Summer School program for being partners in The Commons.