NYAB Event - Jane Benson "The Splits"

Jane Benson "The Splits"

Abrons Arts Center

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The Splits is a new collaborative performance project by Jane Benson. The world premiere of The Splits will gather together ten musicians, composer Matt Schickele, and an ensemble cast of rigorously altered instruments for a multi-media event centered on acts of cutting and splicing, regeneration and proliferation.
Benson’s current project begins with the bisecting of various string instruments into two halves, cutting them along their length, creating two separate instruments. The two halves must then be played together to complete a tune and are, thus, for duets (or quartets, octets or dectets) only — pieces which she creates in collaboration with musicians and composers. The act of splitting at once destroys the integrity of the instrument as an object, and disrupts the conventional process of aesthetic creation that the instrument traditionally permits. Splitting is not merely an act of destruction; the newly formed instrument permits the creation not only of new music, but new communities (visual artist, composer, musicians, and audience).

Media

• Sculpture
• Performance Art

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