performer for the radiophonic play of Yves-Noë Genod and Nathalie Quintane, Marseille massacre in the framework of “ateliers de creation radiophonique de France Culture”. Gisèle Vienne, Dennis Cooper, Peter Rehberg and Jonathan Capdevielle just published, in March 2011 an audio book in 2 versions French and English: “JERK / Through Their Tears”, editions DIS VOIR. STYLISME Jean-Luc Verna was born in Nice in 1966. Artist and performer, he develops a work based on the body, movement, reversal of signs, and gender transgression. His drawings and performances in the videos of Brice Dellsperger as well as his choregraphies unearth a tangible rebellious style identified to rock and is also defined by a slightly affected precision. His work is regularly exhibited in France and abroad (Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris ; Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Sète ; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen ; Mamco, Genève). He is represented by the gallery Air de Paris (www.airdeparis.com) He is teaching the anatomy’s drawing at the Villa Arson in Nice. He has performed feminine role in several Brice Dellsperger’s videos. In 2004, he published a record with his band “Jean-Luc Verna and his dum dum boys”. With Gisèle Vienne, he’s involved as a performer in I Apologize (2004), Une belle enfant blonde / A young, beautiful blond girl (2005) and he created make-up for the performance Jerk (2008). More information available at : www.jlverna.online.fr Stephen O’Malley (b. 1974) was born in New Hampshire, USA and raised in Seattle. He eventually spent a decade in New York and presently is based in Paris. As a composer and musician he has been involved in hundreds of concerts and performances around the world over since 1993. Stephen O'Malley was a founding member of several groups including Sunn O))) (1998), Khanate (2000), Aethenor (2003), KTL (2005) and others. He is a frequent collaborator of many outsider musicians in various formation, and in studio settings. With in Gisèle Vienne plays, he has created the music for Kindertotenlieder (2007), This is How You Will Disappear (2010) and LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011) in collaboration with Peter Rehberg (with whom he founded the band KTL) and also for Eternelle Idole (2009). O’Malley has also worked together with film makers and visual artists in gallery installation work, most notably with the American sculptor, Banks Violette on several pieces between 2005-2008. More information about his work is available at: http://www.ideologic.org/ MAKE-UP Rebecca Flores was born in 1976 in Grenoble. After graduating from the Ecole D’Art of Grenoble, and a stay in London where she had training in severals fields such as : make up, three-dimensional costumes, plaster cast, jewellery... she settled down in Bruxelles in 2004. She has been working for several creation such as Tannhäuser de Jan Fabre, Peter Grimes de Willy Decker, Le rois Arthus de Mattew Jocelyn, La Flûte enchantée de William Kentridge, Pikovaya Dama de Richard Jones and Midsummer Night’s Dream de David Mcvicar. In 2007 she started a collaboration with Guillaume Marie for the movie Spinnen and then the performances Trigger, Nancy and Asfixia (création 2011). She has been working with Claude Schmitz in Amerika and Inner worlds. She started to work with Gisèle Vienne for the performance Treinen Veizen (Gisele Vienne et Etienne Bideau-Rey, 2004), then for I Apologize (2004), Une belle enfant blonde (2005), Kindertotenlieder (2007), Jerk (2008), Eternelle idole (2009), Showroomdummies (Gisèle Vienne et Etienne Bideau-Rey (rewriting of a piece 2009) and This is how you will disappear (2010)
PRESS SEATTLE TIMES Novembre 7, 2008
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