Joachim
Montessuis lives and works in Paris. Over the last ten years he has developed
a transversal praxis around voice, electronic sounds and images, fixed or
treated in real time. His concerts/ install-actions are devised and set
in context as poetic spaces in which a sensorial disturbance and blurring
occurs. They are definitely experiences of immersion, half way between extended
cinema and experimental video, extreme hypnotic crescendos seeking the limits
of our perception. His use of interactive sensing devices occasionally includes
network experiments (streaming, feedback and/or TV-presence). He has worked
in different environments and festivals (Quebec, Berlin , Beyrouth, Brussels,
Northern and Central Africa, Barcelona for the Sonar Festival), in various
centres (the CICV, Le Fresnoy, V2_Lab Rotterdam, KHM-Cologne), and with
various artists ( Eléonore Hellio, David Larcher, Franck Ancel…), sound
poets ( Serge Pey, Henri Chopin, Michel Giroud, Joel Hubaut, Jörg Piringer…)
contemporary dancers and choreographers ( Faustin Linyekula, Valentine Verhaege).
As the founder of Erratum Musical, in Besançon an association involved
in concert/performances and sound poetry events, he still punctually organises
experimental poetic events and exhibitions.
http://www.eternalnetwork.org/jm - http://www.erratum.org