Artistic Hacking – a creative, practice-based approach to performance
Within an entrenched hierarchical relationship, performers have traditionally been viewed as the conduit between creative minds, the composers, and recipients, the passive audience. Presenting excerpts from videos, scores, sketches, and other artistic by-products of my research project, I will show that, by engaging in practices of undoing, unmaking, and unbuilding (J. Halberstam, in Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire, 2020), artistic hacking, as a methodology for targeting, profiling, breaching into, and manipulating musical works, enables different ways of being, living, and dying with and for one another (Haraway 2016). Among other things, this allows us to reconsider the role of the performer, who is no longer expected to “execute”, that is, to faithfully convey the composer's intentions to the audience, but to actively contribute, as Paulo de Assis would say, to imagining new futures.
Lorenzo Orsenigo
Performance, Composition, Percussion
Lorenzo Orsenigo is a performer and artistic researcher specializing in contemporary music. As a soloist and in duo with guitarist Verena Merstallinger, Lorenzo experiments with new interdisciplinary, improvisational and performative approaches. Throughout his career, Lorenzo also boasts collaborations with symphony and opera orchestras, wind bands, chamber and contemporary music ensembles in many countries around the world. Noteworthy is the participation as a “New Music/Research Artist” at the PASIC 2022 international conference held in Indianapolis (USA) in November 2022.
Lorenzo Orsenigo is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Music and Performing Arts (KUG) of Graz, Austria.