Dossier - Key Performance

BACKGROUNDS
CONCEPTION
Gisèle Vienne was born in 1976, she is a franco-austrian artist, choreographer and director.
After graduating in Philosophy, she studied at the puppeteering school Ecole Supérieure
Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette. There she met Etienne Bideau-Rey with whom she
created her first shows.
She works regularly with, amongs other, the writers Dennis Cooper and Catherine Robbe-
Grillet, the musicians Peter Rehberg and Stephen O'Malley, the light designer Patrick Riou
and the actor Jonathan Capdevielle. Since 2004, she has choreographed and directed, in
collaboration with the writer Dennis Cooper, I Apologize (2004) and Une belle enfant blonde /
A young, beautiful blond girl (2005), Kindertotenlieder (2007) and Jerk, a radioplay in the
framework of the “atelier de création radiophonique” of France Culture (June 2007), the play
Jerk (2008), This is how you will disappear (2010) and LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011). In
2009, she created Eternelle Idole with an ice skater and an actor and the rewriting of
Showroomdummies with Etienne Bideau-Rey. Since 2005, she has been frequently
exhibiting her photographs and installations.
Gisèle Vienne, Dennis Cooper, Peter Rehberg and Jonathan Capdevielle published an audio
book in 2 versions French and English: JERK / Through Their Tears, editions DIS VOIR. She
will published a book 40 PORTRAITS 2003-2008, in collaboration with Dennis Cooper and
Pierre Dourthe (Publisher : P.O.L / release: February 16, 2012)
The current works in progress are: a solo performance with the dancer Anja Röttgerkamp, an
installation-staging LAST SPRING: (subheading in progress) and an interpretation of Le
Sacre du Printemps. For further information please visit: http:// www.g-v.fr.
TEXTS
Dennis Cooper is a novelist, poet and critic. He lives in Paris and Los Angeles. He has
published eight novels, most recently The Sluts and God Jr., both 2005. In France this books
are published by POL.
He is a contributing Editor of Art Forum Magazine and the editor of the American publishing
imprint Little House on the Bowery. His most recent book is a short fiction collection Ugly
Man, published in France by POL this past spring under the title Un type immonde.
He has written all the texts in I Apologize (2004), Kindertotenlieder (2007), Jerk (2008), This
is how you will disappear (2010), LAST SPRING : A Prequel (2011) and Une enfant blonde.
A Young Beautiful blonde girl (2006), in collaboration with Catherine Robbe-Grillet.
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. Furthermore in collaboration with Gisèle Vienne, he’s directing the
fanzine LAST SPRING : The Maps, in the frame of la Cooperative Fanzine created by
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Philippe Parreno and Jean-Max Colard (publication : spring
2011). For further information on his work, please visit: http://www.denniscooper.net/
MUSIC
Peter Rehberg (born in 1968) is an author and performer of electronic audio works based in
Vienna, Austria. Rehberg has given live performances both solo and collaborative throughout
Europe, North & South America, Japan and Australia. One of the first batch of artists that
turned to mobile computing devices for presentation of live audio performances in mid-
1990’s. He has collaborated live and in the studio with, amongst others, Jim O'Rourke and
Christian Fennesz (as Fenn O’Berg), Stephen O’Malley (as KTL), Gisele Vienne/DACM
(www.g-v.fr), Peterlicker, Z’EV Russell Haswell, Florian Hecker, Meg Stuart, Chris Haring,
Marcus Schmickler, Jade, SUNNO))), as well as being a member of MIMEO. He also
operates the Editions Mego (www.editionsmego.com) label since 2006, and was co-leader of