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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

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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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