Gérald Kurdian (they/them), musician, performer and radio-artist, studied visual arts at the École Nationale d’Arts de Paris-Cergy before entering the performance and contemporary dance program Ex.e.r.ce 07_Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, under the direction of Mathilde Monnier and Xavier Le Roy.
Their oblique concerts - 1999 (2009), 18 Chansons (2010), My first club-song ever (2011), The magic of spectacular theater (2012), La solidité des choses (2014), Hot bodies - Stand up (2018) - are joyful synergies between electronic music practices, performance art and documentary.
They are regularly presented in the contexts of visual arts (Centre Pompidou - Metz, Fondation Cartier), indie music (Centquatre, Nouveau Casino), or performing arts (Usine C - Montréal, Crossing the Line - New York, Steirischer Herbst - Graz , etc).
Since 2007, they compose radio-pieces and collaborate with the french national radio program Atelier de Création Radiophonique.
In that frame, they invite female prostitutes - Je suis putain (2007) -, contemporary dancers - 6 mois, 1 lieu et le comportement de l’ensemble (2009) - and explore with them some of our bodies’ contemporary perspectives.
In 2010, they won the Phonurgia Nova grant for their project Menaces, fantôme (2011) led with the author Caroline Masini and developed since then a serie of documentary projects using songwriting as a pretext to testimony and exchange :
Nos jours, absolument, doivent-être illuminés (2011) with the movie director Jean-Gabriel Périot and a group of prisoners of the Orléans jailhouse, Les îles artificielles (2015) with the employees of an insurance company.
They compose for movie directors : Héléna Villovitch_Le plus petit appartement de Paris (2014 - Collection Canal Plus_Festival de Cannes), Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet_The things we know (2009), Arnold Pasquier_Paramount (2010), Vincent Dieutre_Déchirés, grave (2013), choreographers: Mette Ingvartsen, Philipp Gehmacher, Simone Aughterlony, Jen Rosenblit, Marcela Santander, Eszter Salamon, Carole Perdereau and Eleanor Bauer and theater makers: Emmanuel Daumas, Vanasay Khamphommala.
Winner of the Prix Paris Jeunes Talents 09, the Grand Zebrock and the FAIR 2010, their electronic songs project first LP, This is the hello monster!, has been selected among the 2010 best records of the french newspaper Libération.
In 2016, they released, Icosaèdre, a french-speaking EP produced by the electronic musician Chapelier Fou and in 2020, an EP for clubs, Tarek X I - V produced by Apollo Noir.
Since 2017, they develop HOT BODIES OF THE FUTURE, a project of performative and musical researches on alternative forms of sexuality and queer micro-politics with the support of ENSAB's post-master Arts et Création Sonore and the associations Emmetrop and Bandits-Mages.
Its first objects : Hot bodies - Stand up, a solo performance, Hot bodies - Choir, a queer choir, A queer club for hot bodies of the future, a party d'amour mixing workshops, conferences, screenings and DJ sets to celebrate the actors of the queer scenes are currently on tour.
Since 2020, they are one of the artist-researchers of the ESACM’s research cooperative.
They premiered their last show, X ! (un opéra fantastique), in November 2022 in the frame of the french Festival d’Automne and in the Brussels Kaaitheater program.
AGENDA
What?
When?
Where?
Where?
(concert)
13 Songs for
the
Unspeakable
(concert)
13 Songs for
the
Unspeakable
(lecture)
Gérald Kurdian
(concert)
gærald
(workshop)
(+concert)
Hot Bodies Choir
(concert)
13 Songs for
the
Unspeakable
(workshop)
(+concert)
Hot Bodies Choir
(performance)
X ! (un opéra
fantastique)
(performance)
X ! (un opéra
fantastique)
(concert)
Hot Bodies Choir
(2023)
Mar 11th
Mar 17th
Mar 27th
Apr 28th
May 20th
May 24th
May 24th
Jun 28th
Jun 29th
Jul 8
Gessnerallee
Beurchouwbu.
ESSAIX
La Cave aux
Poètes
FDP / Arsenic
Théâtre 13
Théâtre 13
Schillertage
Festival
Schillertage
Festival
Festival
de la Cité
Zürich (ch)
Brussels (Be)
Aix-en-
Provence (Fr)
Roubaix (Fr)
Lausanne (Ch)
Paris (Fr)
Paris (Fr)
Mannheim (De)
Mannheim (De)
Lausanne (Ch)
MUSIC
GÆRALD
RELEASES
RMX
(EP_Hot Bodies of
the Future_2022)
Oil Forming Rainbows (GÆRALD feat. the Manchester Hot Bodies Choir)
(Single_Les Disques du Lobby_2021)
Tarek X I-V
(EP_Hot Bodies of
the Future_2020)
Icosaèdre
(EP_2016)
This is the hello monster !
(LP_BS Records & Gommette_2010)
Evol is All
(EP_2008)
RELEASES
RMX
(EP_Hot Bodies of
the Future_2022)
Oil Forming Rainbows (GÆRALD feat. the Manchester Hot Bodies Choir)
(Single_Les Disques du Lobby_2021)
Tarek X I-V
(EP_Hot Bodies of
the Future_2020)
Icosaèdre
(EP_2016)
This is the hello monster !
(LP_BS Records & Gommette_2010)
Evol is All
(EP_2008)
FEATS
Tickling Time
Chapelier Fou
(vocals & lyrics)
(Ici d’ailleurs, 2014)
Vessel Arches
Chapelier Fou
(vocals & lyrics)
(Ici d’ailleurs, 2013)
+
DJ SETS & MIXTAPES
GÆRALD’s Queer-x-tape (mixtape)
Le Bombardier
(mixtape)
Tickling Time
Chapelier Fou
(vocals & lyrics)
(Ici d’ailleurs, 2014)
Vessel Arches
Chapelier Fou
(vocals & lyrics)
(Ici d’ailleurs, 2013)
+
DJ SETS & MIXTAPES
GÆRALD’s Queer-x-tape (mixtape)
Le Bombardier
(mixtape)
GÆRALD
MUSIC VIDEOS
Faeries
(music video, 2019)
Clito Manifesto (music video, 2017)
La Mer du Nord
(music video, 2015)
TV shows
(music video, 2009)
MUSIC VIDEOS
Faeries
(music video, 2019)
Clito Manifesto (music video, 2017)
La Mer du Nord
(music video, 2015)
TV shows
(music video, 2009)
LIVE VIDEOS
Live (Witch Bitch)
@ MOFO Festival
Live (online)
@ Music Pride Intl
This is the hello monster (Tv Shows)
@ OUI FM
This is the hello monster (Nirvana Cover)
@ OUI FM
La Mer du Nord
@ Froggy’s Session
La Mer du Nord
@ POP News
Live (Les Solides)
@ Le Centquatre
Live (Vessel arches)
Chapelier Fou feat. Gérald Kurdian
This is the hello monster (Hop)
@ Jeune Talent
This is the hello monster !
@ Paris Jeunes Talents
This is the hello monster live
@ 6par4
Live (Witch Bitch)
@ MOFO Festival
Live (online)
@ Music Pride Intl
This is the hello monster (Tv Shows)
@ OUI FM
This is the hello monster (Nirvana Cover)
@ OUI FM
La Mer du Nord
@ Froggy’s Session
La Mer du Nord
@ POP News
Live (Les Solides)
@ Le Centquatre
Live (Vessel arches)
Chapelier Fou feat. Gérald Kurdian
This is the hello monster (Hop)
@ Jeune Talent
This is the hello monster !
@ Paris Jeunes Talents
This is the hello monster live
@ 6par4
PERFORMANCES
X ! (un opéra fantastique)
(performance, creation 2022)
Hot Bodies - Stand Up
(performance, 2018)
Hot Bodies - Choir.s
(collaborative workshop & concert, 2018 - ∞)
A Queer Club for Hot Bodies of the Future
(inclusive Clubbing Party, 2018 - ∞)
La Solidité des Choses
(performance, 2014)
The Magic of Spectacular Theater
(performance, 2012)
18 Chansons
(collaborative workshop & site-specific performance, 2010)
My First Club Song Ever
(performance, 2010)
1999
(performance, 2009)
FILMS & INSTALLATIONS
Hot Bodies - TV
(video_2020-21)
The Many Lives of Tarek X
(video_2020)
Hot Bodies - Camp
(installation_2019)
Les Îles Artificielles
(video_2015)