User:BrunoPocheron/Bruno

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Origins and past activities

Born in 1968, he grew up in Autun (Burgundy, France) and later studied visual arts in the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Dijon (1986-1990). Parallel to his studies, he started to work as an independent stage technician in Dijon.

He initiated, together with Isabelle Schad and Ben Anderson, the collaborative framework Good Work, concerned with the representation and perception of the body onstage and in society.

Current situation

He lives in Berlin and works internationally, mostly as lighting designer, but also as technical director, set and sound designer for contemporary dance and theater.

Collective projects

He is co-organizing : Tanzhalle Wiesenburg (Wiesen55 e.V.), a collective working space in Berlin-Wedding / Gangplank, an open network of artists and designers focusing on inter-media communication, relations between technology and art, and cross-overs between the fields at play in contemporary performance-making / Fencing Borders, a documentary project concerned with the local impacts of the fencing-off of the Schengen borders.

Stage projects

He is currently involved in stage projects with Apparatus (Berlin), Alice Chauchat (Berlin), Emese Csornai (Berlin), Judith Depaule (Paris), Juan Dominguez (Berlin), Mette Edvardsen (Brussels), Alix Eynaudi (Vienna), Philipp Gehmacher (Vienna), Lina Gomez (Berlin), Anne Juren (Vienna), Nikolina Komljenovic (Zagreb), Andrea Maurer (Vienna), Sasa Bozic, Petra Hrascanec et Simone Aughterlony (Berlin-Zagreb-Zürich).

Development

He develops software interfaces in PureData and vvvv, allowing for a fluid communication between lights, sound and video and researches the dramaturgical impact of these elements.