Entanglements of Two: A Series of Duets

Mary Paterson is an independent writer, researcher and curator. With Intellect she previously published Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation (2020), co-edited with Roberta Mock. Karen Christopher is a collaborative performance maker, performer, and teacher. Her company, Haranczak/ Navarre Performance Projects, has been engaged in creating a series of duet performances. Karen was a member of the influential Chicago-based Goat Island performance group for 20 years.

• [1] Opening gambitKaren Christopher[2]ForewordSeason Butler[3] Haranczak/Navarre Performance ProjectsDuet collaborations, 2010-21[4]Introductory fragment #1: the two of you Karen Christopher[5]Between Two SomethingsJ. R. Carpenter[6]Duet WalkKaren Christopher & Mary Paterson[7]Resonance of TwoKaren Christopher[8]Six Practices of Learning Together in HavrutaOrit Kent[9]Introductory fragment #2: heart and lungs Karen Christopher[10]Consider This (Control Signal)Mary Paterson[11]Staying with the trembleEirini Kartsaki[12]What never stops?Joe Kelleher[13]Invisible partners remain themselves insideLitó Walkey [14]The Promise of More to Come (So Below)Mary Paterson[15]On creating a climate of attention: the composition of our workKaren 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 rolesAndrea Milde[18]Introductory fragment #3: tangledKaren Christopher[19]Imagining Seven Falls Mary Paterson[20]Introductory fragment #4: a lot of ropeKaren Christopher[21]Always On Uneven GroundRajni Shah [22]TwoFold: QuestionsMary Paterson[23]A Physics DuetDavid Berman [24]Conclusion: I have been thinking of you this whole timeMary Paterson[25]Diffractions: record of a passageDavid Williams[26]Contributors’ biographies[27]Acknowledgments

'Entanglements of Two works, like much performance work, by slow and considered associative thinking. Back and forth ideas go, page and eye, words and reader, meaning and mind, reflecting upon ten years of duet performances whilst also – as the back cover puts it – ‘exploring the practical, philosophical, and aesthetic implications of working in pairs and offer[ing] wider reflections on the duet as a concept in artistic and social life’. [...] So far I think this book is a call to action, a learning tool.'