The New Symposium
Portfolio Dialogues
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PORTFOLIO DIALOGUES
Upcoming Portfolio Dialogues: to be announced soon
The Portfolio Dialogues invite distinguished composers and performers to unfold a body of work in sustained conversation with selected cohorts of young and emerging practitioners.
A portfolio is read not as a chronology of achievements but as the working grammar of a practice. Completed works appear alongside projects still taking shape. Earlier solutions return as new problems; technical limitations acquire aesthetic necessity; abandoned procedures become newly relevant; unanswered questions migrate from one work into another.
Scores, recordings, sketches, instruments, technologies, rehearsal materials, working procedures, and production contexts serve as primary materials of inquiry.
The dialogue brings three registers into relation: the artist’s account of intentions and decisions; the procedures and conditions through which the work was made; and the formal properties and perceptual effects of the work itself. It asks where these registers corroborate, complicate, or contradict one another—and what becomes perceptible only through questions posed by another practitioner.
— Composer Portfolios in Dialogue, moderated by Brina Kren
— Performer Portfolios in Dialogue, moderated by Urban Megušar
UPCOMING PORTFOLIO DIALOGUES
PAST PORTFOLIO DIALOGUES
COMPOSER PORTFOLIOS IN DIALOGUE
PERFORMER PORTFOLIOS IN DIALOGUE
APPLICATION FORM TO PARTICIPATE:
The New Symposium program is produced by .abeceda Institute
.abeceda [Institute for Research in Art, Critical Thought and Philosophy], a public-benefit NGO and non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing contemporary artistic practices and critical inquiry. Through its innovative programmes, .abeceda has gained international recognition as one of the leading platforms for contemporary music and artistic research in the Adriatic region and across Europe: www.abeceda.io