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EMMA KERSSENBROCK

Emma Kerssenbrock is an independent sound artist. A DNSEP graduate with congratulations from the jury in 2018 in the sound arts section at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (Strasbourg), they continued their course in electroacoustic composition at the city's conservatory for a year.

Their practice is mixed and aims to be hybrid; it oscillates between sound composition, sculpture, installation and performance. Like the mycelium, it is by constantly mutating between these mediums that they find the friction they are looking for. They use their creative process to question their audience about their legitimacy as an artist. Their sound creation is just as eclectic as his practice: electroacoustic composition based on concrete sounds and synthesis used both in concert and in performance, vocal work around shouting and saturation, and more recently a techno-punk solo project / degenerate alt-pop.

It is through stage practice and the creation of their various characters and projects that they find the recognition and fulfillment they seek. Co-founder of the "Ligojn" collective (Strasbourg/Istanbul) and founder of the "Incessante" association (Paris), they have also been a programmer since 2018 of evening concerts and performances aimed at highlighting young experimental artists. In particular, they won the "La Nouvelle Onde" prize in the "Artist entrepreneur" category with the creation in 2022 of his association based in Ile-de-France. They are the winner of the COAX collective's 2022-2023 call for projects with their performance project "Dialogue impraticable".

Dialogue impraticable :

"The artist is a rare and wild specimen with obscure preoccupations. He generally lives in dark and humid cellars where he spends his time crying lying in a fetal position on the ground. Furnished with ten appendages serving as his fingers, his favorite hobby is to create. Finding himself frequently in incomprehension in the face of the entities he generates, he converses with his creations in an attempt to understand the meaning of their existence. During this mechanical-organic exchange with contradictory appearances, his body becomes hybrid in an ultimate approach of dialogue with his works."

Emma delights in portraying the artist in a crude and satirical way, playing on the stereotypes of a lazy, absurd-looking creator. They thus deconstruct the myth of the esthete considered as half-dunce, half-talented and questions the value of their artistic creation. This performance is a hybridization between quirky science fiction films, the "Cellules" installations by Louise Bourgeois, and the performances of Paul McCarthy. On a background sound oscillating between amniotic atmospheres and anxiety-provoking pulsations, they create a skit where their character is agitated during their working process. They also question their relationship to "others" (in this case their audience) by exploring the notions of proxemics, or even discomfort. Will you have the courage to come and meet the creator?