Adrienne Herr (1991, USA; lives and works in Berlin) explores the plas­tic­i­ty of speech across live per­for­mance, video, and sculp­tur­al instal­la­tion. By delaying, stretching, stuttering, breaking, and juxtaposing phrases and words, she situates the voice as a pivot point between language and materiality. With her background in experimental poetics, her compositions often enact a kind of associative leaping and reflexive repetition. Drawing from contemporary investments in performed authenticity, Herr’s composition process combines both improvisation and intensive scoring to present a per­cep­tu­al slip­page between the vis­cer­al or imme­di­ate and the repro­duced or staged. The plastic, situational quality of the voice emerges as a highly consequential and potentially volatile tool in producing affect. In her work she not only reveals the voice as instrumentalized in this way, but also releases it into a poetic logic that exceeds the coherence of any singular address, unfolding instead through recursive forms of expression and affective excess.



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