Chloé Déchery is a performance-make, writer, pedagogue and Lecturer in theater and performance studies at the University of Paris 8 in Saint-Denis, France. Her research interests include everyday corporeality and embodiment; authorship and creative labour; the atmospheric turn and eco-feminism in performance. She is the co-director of Performer Les Savoirs (Performing Knowledge) a research programme and curatorial platform. Recent publications include Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance: A Duet Without You and Practice as Research (ed); Artist.es-Chercheur.es, Chercheur.es-Artistes, Performer Les Savoirs (eds. Marion Boudier, ArTeC/les presses du réel, 2022) and theatre journals Documents-Matériaux, in thaêtre [online], Chantier #7, (eds. Marion Boudier), 2022 and Staging Atmospheres: Theatre and the Atmospheric Turn, volumes 1 and 2 (eds. Marion Martin Welton), ambiances [online], issues 6 and 7, 2020 and 2021. Atmosphères en scène : le théâtre à l’ère du tournant atmosphérique. www.chloedechery.com
'Framing the author's solo performance piece A Duet Without You (2013-2016), this fascinating academic artefact stages, conceptualises and comments on the cardinal principle of performance-making: collaboration. Both as an artist and academic, Chloe Dechery illuminates the space of absence belonging to invisible collaborators in performance-making and makes a powerful argument in favour of the fundamentally relational, intersubjective and composite nature of solo artworks. The significance of this recognition can never be greater than in the aftermath of a global lockdown! This book will be a reliable companion for students in any field of the creative arts and a source of inspiration for artists and scholars exploring modes of performance documentation.' -- Duska Radosavljevic, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama