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JÉRÔME PORSPERGER Selected Works
JÉRÔME PORSPERGERSelected Works
The artist Jérôme Porsperger, born in 1978and based in Brussels (Belgium), is initiallya graduate in bio-engineering.
He shares classical music in multiple contemporary forms for more than 10 years. He possesses a collection of thousands of classical recordings and studies of music theory and history and followed piano and singing lessons. His knowledge and sensitivity have grownto a point that he wants to share it in new and different ways. In his performance «The Invisible Concert» (Le Concert Invisible), he takes the various roles of Classical Music DJ, countertenor-female voice opera singer and «air-conductor». It happens in public spaces,art galleries or unusual venues. Porsperger also renews the visual aspects of classical music throughouta production of videos, installations, posters and site specific performances. He is always looking for new ways of sharing classical music, is open to collaborations, far from traditional methods, venues, aestheticsand audiences.
Porsperger’s body of work shows that by revisiting and working in multiple forms, the universe of classical music can be liberated from its «ivory tower» and be made more contemporary, fresh and accessible. Since 2004, he has multiplied the contexts of sharing his work, such as parks, boulevards, a car parade, churches, forests, rock cafes, storefronts, as well as galleries, festivals and museums. The past few years he has been creating more in art residencies which allow him to explore other quirky, desecration and iconoclastic forms.
Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, USA, Thailand, Quebec, UK, Czech Republic, Malta, Sardinia, Sicily
THE InvISIblE COnCERT
Classical Music DJ (Ableton live software), countertenor-female voice opera singer and «air-conductor»
Site specific happenings : balcony of buildings, rooftops, parcs, urban cross roads, churches, art galleries...
Brussels, Berlin, New York, Malta, Bangkok... 2003 - 2015
body art, public spaces, site-specific, classical and electronic music, remixing, singing, historyeducation, social activism, durational art, architecture, land-art, cinematographic moments, post-baroc, proximity
PERFORMAnCEPERFORMAnCE
PERFORMER AS COUnTERTEnOR FEMAlE-vOICE SInGER (KlAUS nOMI’S STYlE)
Executing a repertoire of baroque songs and free vocal improvisations during Invisible Concerts as well as joining
other musical forms in collaboration
Brussels, Berlin, Marseilles, New York, Quebec... 2006 - 2015
MAILBOX ACTION
Distribution of thematic CD’s in streets called Chopin Street, Mozart St., Bach St., Ravel St....
Quebec, LeLobe Residency - 2011
FlESH TOnES
Action painting in duo with Pablo Avendaño Chávarri (painter)soundtrack made by automatic poetry added on John Cage’s music remixed and vocal improvisation
Brussels, Martine Ehmer Gallery - 2014
SlEEP STREET
Collective happening about sleeping in public space
Berlin, Solaris Residency - 2010
ClASSIC TURnTAblE On TOUR
Unexpected places such as an airplane, supermarket, swimming pool and diverse urban spaces are transformed into micro-concerts of classical music
Series of video art - Brussels, Czech Republic - 2010
vISUAl ARTvideo, photography, sculpture, graphic art, street art, dance, landscape, (de)contextualized art, memory
SANDY FLEW ME
Wandering of a silent conductor in the devastated streets of New York, consequence of Hurricane Sandy
Photos by Emily Andrews - New York - 2012
GlITCH IT!
Series of revisited portraits and imagery of classical music
Postcards and posters - Brussels, 2014 - 2015
TiTre daTe eTc...
Texte, explications,...
INvISIBLE CONDUCTOR
An « air-conductor » conducting classical music extracts in a range of world landscapes
Series of video art - New York, vietnam, Sicily, Quebec... 2010 - 2012
TRAZOM
Gravestone dedicated to Mozart
Granit, 80 * 50cm
Quebec, LeLobe Residency - 2011
ATOMIC-ClASSIC
Classical music decontextualized out of the traditional concert hall by presenting it in a reconstructed squat and more interactive installations
Quebec, LeLobe Residency - 2011
interdisciplinary, participatory experience, hybridization, iconoclasm, education, immersive environment
InSTAllATIOn
MOzART IS NOT DEAD
Collective pop-trash altar dedicated to Mozart,the public is invited to make a personal offering and to place it in the temple
Brussels, ISELP Gallery - 2011
lYRICAl MIRROR
Interactive tool live-transforming random voicesinto operatic voices
Brussels, Wikube workspace - 2014
MUlTIMEDIAinteractive, FM transmission, parade of tuned cars, urban spaceCAM technology, sound, voice, collective / one-to-one experience
Cars & Composers
City parade with remixed classical music loud broadcasted live in the streets using simultaneously of a dozen of tuned cars
Brussels, plaisirs d’Hiver - 2007
PA PAPA PAPAPAPAPAPA
Rewriting work of famous classic tunes into informal scores
Postcards and posters - Brussels, Nadine Gallery - 2010
pa, papa,papapapapapa,
pa, papa,papapapapapa,
papaaaaa,...
Mozart, Little Night Music
poetry, automatic writing, typography, performance
WRITInG
AUTOMATIC WRITINGS
Poetic essays in the frame of performative acts - 2014
CREDITS
Pictures by Pascal Mouri, Fabienne Cresens, Emily Andrews,Jean-Marc E-Roy, Karinne Labrunie, Nicolas Longpré,Damaris Risch, Laurent Gillet, Pablo Avendaño Chavárri
Graphic Design by Émilie De vos - www.botoxdesign.com
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