In addition to her performer-life, Jessica is a scholar, practice researcher & composer/devisor. Her work circles around embodied politics, interdisciplinary creative practice, and embodied performance research.
General Writing
2021
A brief proposition for orienting collaborative acts, embodiment and technique (10 Statements Project)
Shred: It’s not enough to get paid for your art: care and the commodification of culture (ed)
Shred: A political History of the colour Red (a conversation with Manuel Pessoa de Lima)
Shred: We, Levine.
2017
Undisciplined Music - Article in ‘New Music Box’ about embodied performance of theatrical-relational musics
Lectures, Panels, Interviews
2021
Threeways - Panel discussion with brianna Tong, Nijmie-Dzurinko and Tori Larsen
2019
Huddersfield Center for research in New Music - Lecture
Academic Publications
“Collaborative and Distributed Processes in Contemporary Music-Making” by Lauren Redhead, Richard Glover, eds.
Review 2020 in Tempo
“I sang the unsingable: My life in Twentieth Century Music” by Bethany Beardslee and Minna Zallman Proctor.
Got Lost: Embodied Vocal Performance at the Junction of Autoethnography and Practice-Based Research (2018)
Chapter in “Creative Selves/Creative Cultures: Critical Autoethnography, Performance, and Pedagogy” with Palgrave-MacMillan
Grains without Territory: Voicing Alexander Garsden’s [ja] Maser and the de-centralized Vocal Subject (2017) - Article in ‘Directions of new music’
Vocal entanglements: exploring the links between music-making and performer-subjectivity at the Tanglewood Music Center (2017)
Chapter in 'Here and Now: Music Research in Australia' on Intelligent Arts