JÉRÔME PORSPERGER Selected Works

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1 JÉRÔME PORSPERGER Selected Works

2 The artist Jérôme Porsperger, born in 1978 and based in Brussels (Belgium), is initially a 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 grown to 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 throughout a 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, aesthetics and 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

3 PERFORMANCE body art, public spaces, site-specific, classical and electronic music, remixing, singing, history education, social activism, durational art, architecture, land-art, cinematographic moments, post-baroc, proximity 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

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5 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

6 MAILBOX ACTION Distribution of thematic CD s in streets called Chopin Street, Mozart St., Bach St., Ravel St... Quebec, LeLobe Residency

7 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

8 Sleep STREET Collective happening about sleeping in public space Berlin, Solaris Residency

9 VISUAL ART video, photography, sculpture, graphic art, street art, dance, landscape, (de)contextualized art, memory 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

10 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

11 GLITCH IT! Series of revisited portraits and imagery of classical music Postcards and posters - Brussels,

12 Invisible Conductor An «air-conductor» conducting classical music extracts in a range of world landscapes Titre date etc... Texte, explications,... Series of video art - New York, Vietnam, Sicily, Quebec

13 TRAZOM Gravestone dedicated to Mozart Granit, 80 * 50cm Quebec, LeLobe Residency

14 INSTALLATION interdisciplinary, participatory experience, hybridization, iconoclasm, education, immersive environment 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

15 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

16 MULTIMEDIA interactive, FM transmission, parade of tuned cars, urban space CAM technology, sound, voice, collective / one-to-one experience LYRICAL MIRROR Interactive tool live-transforming random voices into operatic voices Brussels, Wikube workspace

17 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

18 WRITING poetry, automatic writing, typography, performance pa, papa, papapapapapa, pa, papa, papapapapapa, papaaaaa,... Mozart, Little Night Music Pa Papa PAPAPAPAPAPA Rewriting work of famous classic tunes into informal scores Postcards and posters - Brussels, Nadine Gallery

19 AUTOMATIC WRITINGS Poetic essays in the frame of performative acts

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21 +32 (0) 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 -