According to Pétrin, she considered herself “more of a performer than a musician.” In her current practice, Pétrin derives much of her influence from her previous musical years, as the notion of the performance itself informs her work in terms of the human capacity: to go over her physical limitations and the achievements of the body. During a performance, Pétrin would make a connection between the “pop culture garbage,” as she states, and the body: as a performer situated in the centre of the drifting sounds and the collaging of elements, patterns, tensions, and imagery, there is an absorption of information. Through this absorption, how can we then make out the processes of the world around us?
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