Adrienne Herr (1991, USA; lives and works in Berlin) explores the plas­tic­i­ty of speech. By delaying, stretching, stuttering, breaking, and juxtaposing phrases and words, she situates the voice as a pivot point between language and materiality. With a background in experimental poetics, her work often enacts 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. Herr works across video, sound and sculptural installation, as well as live performance, vocal ensemble, playwriting and poetry.



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