Jelena Perišić/Kemmer
She is currently pursuing a PhD in Arts Practice at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (2022- ), University of Limerick, where she has also been (co-)tutoring on the modules Media Technologies for Performing Arts and Arts Research, and Performing Arts Technology (2023- ).
Music/sound
Lingua Arcana, solo album (2023): https://kemmmer.bandcamp.com/album/lingua-arcana
Langscapes (2021): https://www.kemmersound.com/langscapes
Seanchroí, EP (2021): https://kemmmer.bandcamp.com/
Works 2010-2015: https://www.reverbnation.com/jelenaperisic/songs
Video
Recent video works (2021- ): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgmSHITZNYodVglGl-B-Xww
The Path of the Sun, 1-3 (2015-2017) https://vimeo.com/salmonsoul
Visual art
Portfolio (2013- ): https://www.behance.net/Kemmmer
Texts & translations
Personal blogs, as the author and translator (2007- ): http://ezoterijum.blogspot.com/ (Serbian) https://esoteriumm.blogspot.com/ (English)
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Education
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick
PhD Arts Practice
2022-
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick
MA Composition and Creative Music Practice
2020-2021
ITS - Visoka škola strukovnih studija za informacione tehnologije (Information Technology School)
BA in Computer Multimedia
2012-2017
Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade
BA in Scandinavian languages and literature, Swedish language
2004-2009
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Contact:
Jelena.Perisic@ul.ie
kemmersound@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/kemmmer/
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Projects, festivals, conferences, lectures, collaborations & awards:
June 2024
This is The Word – an audio-visual installation exploring the everyday fluidity and transmutations between sound, music, visuals, and text, across physical and digital realms, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick
May 2024
2024 Orpheus Doctoral Conference, Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium – presenting my PhD research
April 2024
Convergence: Seminar on (Re)construction in Interdisciplinary Artistic Practices, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, Belgium – live performance/demonstration of the virtual intermedia instrument built in Max
March 2024
Artistic Research @ Kristiania (AR@K24) symposium: The Artist, The Ghost, and The Machine, Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway – live performance/demonstration of the virtual intermedia instrument built in Max
December 2023
Solo album Lingua Arcana
October 2023
Music For Sleep project (Cities and Memory – global sound map, field recording and sound art, Oxford, UK) – working with a randomly allocated sound recording from Sri Lanka, resulting in a music/sound art piece based on it, Sleep Song (Chirps Of The Exosphere), which got selected for the project album
October 2023
International Computer Music Conference 2023, School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China – audiovisual/intermedia piece One Day I Will Find The Right Words
September 2023
International Conference on Immersive and 3D Audio (I3DA), School of Engineering and Architecture, Bologna, Italy – contributed to the paper "Convolution, virtual acoustics, and interactions with impossible worlds", with Eoin Callery (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance), Jonathan Abel (CCRMA - Stanford university), Elliot Canfield-Dafilou (Institut Jean le Rond d’Alembert, Sorbonne Université/CNRS)
September 2023
GOI-IES (Government of Ireland International Education) Scholarship for postgraduate research, 2023-2024
May 2022
Spring Project (Cities and Memory – global sound map, field recording and sound art, Oxford, UK) – working with a randomly allocated sound recording from around the world which resulted in a music/sound art piece based on it, Devil’s Engine
April 2023
Dialogues and Frictions, a listening/discussion session organized by the Indian Sonic Research Organization, curated by Pratyay Raha, Goethe-Institut, Bangalore, India – sound art piece Quantum Uprising
Mar 2023
ISSTA Spatial Audio Workshop and Concert at SARC, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland – audiovisual/intermedia piece One Day I Will Find The Right Words performed live in the Sonic Lab at SARC, using their 40-loudspeaker sound spatialization system
Feb 27 2023
A guest talk at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, with the students of the BA Voice and Dr. Óscar Mascareñas Garza as a facilitator, topic: Exploring new modes of intermedia in creating, presenting, and experiencing art and reality as a whole, with the voice as the key medium
Nov 2022
Ćutanje je zlato/Silence is golden, the 2nd international silent film festival, Dom kulture Studentski grad (Belgrade, Serbia) – short film I Bhfad As Amharc (Outro)
Nov 2022
SIIMI (Simpósio Internacional de Inovação em Mídias Interativas) 2022 - Entropia, organized by MediaLab/UFG, Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of Chile, Santiago – presenting my project Langscapes
Nov 2022
Polar Sounds Project (Cities and Memory – global sound map, field recording and sound art, Oxford, UK) – working with a randomly allocated sound recording from the Polar Seas which resulted in a music/sound art piece based on it, Polarchitecture
10 Oct 2022
Sound Art Lab (Struer, Denmark) – Langscapes, sound installation
Oct 2022
PEBBLES, Underground Film And Video Art Festival – short film I Bhfad As Amharc (Outro)
Sep 2022
Radio New Town (Kolkata, India), Pratyay Raha’s interview about listening, awareness, environment, field recording and soundscape composition – presenting my audio piece The Ritual (2020)
Sep 2022
ARCadia Festival (Glasgow, Scotland), theme: Spatial Stories, Storying Spaces – sound art piece I Am The Oar And I Am The Sea performed as a part of the ARCadia spatial audio concert programme
Jan-May 2022
Collaboration with Dr. Eoin Callery – video-editing for his audio-visual installation, Slow Burn in Perpetuity
Jun-Aug 2022
Esto Es Para Esto - Exhibidora de Cine (Monterrey, Mexico) – short films: I Bhfad As Amharc (Outro), An Slua Sí and Mary’s Wedding
Apr 2022
SmolShorts – student film festival 2022 (St. Petersburg, Russia) – short film: Mary’s Wedding
March 2022
Vocals for the track I Dream of Machines, composed, performed and recorded by Celsey McFadden, as a part of the sountrack for Visible Chaos , an interdisciplinary Arts Practice PhD performance by Phoebe Brown, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick
Feb 15 2022
A guest talk at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, with the students of the BA Voice and Dr. Óscar Mascareñas Garza as a facilitator, topic: Interdisciplinarity – Using language, visual art and sound/music to discover alternative pathways in creative practice and experiencing reality
Jan 16 2022
Joint SMI and ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference (Dublin City University) – presenting my final MA project Langscapes
Dec 2021
Alternative Film / Video festival (Belgrade, Serbia) – short film: I Bhfad As Amharc (Outro), as a part of the South By Southeast program
Sep 2021
LIGHT MOVES Festival (Limerick, Ireland) – Nå-å-ha wí, a music track for Enigma, a screendance short by Amberlee Toumanguelov
Aug 2021
Langscapes, my final MA project (MA Composition and Creative Music Practice, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance) – an interactive online experience
Mar 2021
Seanchroí, a 5-track EP
2020-
The Word, a music track for UNTOLD, an experimental short collage animation by Nikola Gocić (Nicollage), screened at:
Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival, the 2nd edition (Ciudad de México, Mexico), Nahui Ollin Film Festival, the 2nd edition (Durango, Mexico), Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, the 69th edition, Fisura, Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Experimental, edición 2 (Mexico City, Mexico), Sweet Democracy Film Awards (Lazio, Italy), Filmysea International Film Festival (Dombivli, India), Cinemaking International Film Festival, 2nd Edition (Dhaka, Bangladesh), Hummingbird International Film Festival (Kolkata, India), Exploratory Visions 2021 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Kinolikbez XI, Animation and Video Art (St. Petersburg, Russia), Fonlad Festival, the 15th Edition (Coimbra, Portugal), IMAGE PLAY ► Festival International Video Art Festival – II Edition (Madeira, Portugal)
Aug 2018
Guest lead/backing vocals on the cover of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells by LIGHT (Argentina)
2014
Guest lead/backing vocals on the album A Lullaby For Mankind, Rodrigo San Martín (Argentina)
Dec 2012
Femikseta 2012, an annual compilation of female musicians (Serbia), as a part of the Femix Project, track: Anikulapo
Jan 2012
Guest lead/backing vocals on the album Life and Death, The Astral Platypus/Rodrigo San Martín (Argentina)
Dec 2013
Femikseta 2012, an annual compilation of female musicians (Serbia), as a part of the Femix Project, track: October
Jan 2011-Feb 2012
Guest lead/backing vocals on the tracks The Mask and Con Los Ojos Abiertos, on the album Eyes (2012), Rodrigo San Martín (Argentina)
2011
Guest lead/backing vocals on the track Lakshmi, on the album Chaos (2014), and on the track This Is Goodbye, for Rodrigo San Martín’s projects Souls Ignite and De Rien (Argentina) respectively
Jan 2010-Nov 2010
Guest lead/backing vocals on the album There’s No Way Out, Rodrigo San Martín (Argentina)
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Exhibitions, publications, workshops and collaborations:
Oct 2022
PASA Festival, the fusion of Photo and Science Art (South Korea) – digital painting “Lamenostalgia“, part 2 (2020)
Sep 2022
Envision Arts, Script IV (online exhibition) – digital painting, “The Ritual" (2022)
Aug 2022
Monsoon Carnival, Art India Gallery (India/online) – digital painting, “(We Were) Thinking Fog“, pt. 1-3 (2021)
Jul 2022
THE Artist Collaboration factory (TACF) – online platform and gallery, led by Katja Ebert-Krüdener (Germany) – digital painting, “Genesis“ (2022), and collaboration with Katja Ebert-Krüdener on her digital art piece
Jul 2022
2nd International Online Exhibition, Motile Art (Kolkata, India) – digital painting, “The Giver“ (2022)
Dec 2020
Endframe(s), an exhibition as a part of Kinoskop – the 1st international festival of analog experimental cinema and audio-visual performance (Belgrade, Serbia)
Oct 2020
New Balkan (an online exhibition)
Mar 2020
Libartes, an online magazine for arts, culture and social matters (Serbia), issue XVII (the Irish Libartes) – illustrations
Oct 2018
Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight, online (USA) – The Path of The Sun, pt. 1-3
Mar 2016
CD cover design for Childhood, Coming of Age and Decay, the 1st, 3rd and 4th part of the album The Veil is Broken respectively, Rodrigo San Martín (Argentina)
Aug 2015
Artistic Meditation Retreat Fellowship 2015 (Mooktawan Meditation Sanctuary, Thailand)
2014
CD cover design for the album A Lullaby For Mankind, Rodrigo San Martín (Argentina)
Nov 2014
Belgrade Behance Reviews, as a presenter at the Photography workshop, Mikser House (Belgrade, Serbia)
Oct 2014-Mar 2015
Egallery, the Executive Group offices (Belgrade, Serbia)
May 2014
Š.U.N.D. Festival, Rua da Fábrica de Material de Guerra (Lisabon, Portugal)
Apr-Oct 2014
Nova Kolekcija (The New Collection project), Magacin Gallery (Belgrade, Serbia)
Mar-Apr 2014
Material World pt. 1 and 2, Bienalle 2014, Truman Brewery and Espacio Gallery (London, UK)
Nov 2013
Belgrade Behance Reviews, as a presenter at the Illustration workshop, Mikser House (Belgrade, Serbia)
Jul 2013
Red Bull Collective Art (online and in Belgrade, Serbia)
Jul 2013
Kultur!Kokoška magazine (Serbia), online
May 2013
The Volkskunst section, Laibach’s official website
Mar 2013
Manifest (Manifesto), a workshop, and Menjaža (Exchange), a collective exhibition, as the parts of the (Graphic) Designer: An author or a universal soldier – Training conference, The Faculty of Media and Communications (Belgrade, Serbia)
2011
CD cover/booklet design for the album Chaos, Souls Ignite/Rodrigo San Martín (Argentina)
Jun 2011
Belgrade – urban dissatisfactions, Ostrvo Gallery, People’s University Božidar Adžija (Belgrade, Serbia)
Jan 2011-Feb 2012
CD cover/booklet design for the album Eyes, Rodrigo San Martín (Argentina)
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Publications:
Dec 2020
Libartes, an online magazine for arts, culture and social matters (Serbia), issue XX (the Melancholy Libartes) – Breskva (Peach) and Unutarnja lepota (Inner Beauty), short stories (as the author) and translation of Love Story, a short story by Anthony Kelly (from English to Serbian)
Mar 2020
Libartes, an online magazine for arts, culture and social matters (Serbia), issue XVII (the Irish Libartes) – prose/poetry (as the author) and translations of Liam Ó Muirthile, Seán Ó Ríordáin and Micheál Gallagher’s poems (from English/Irish to Serbian)
Sep 2020
Libartes, an online magazine for arts, culture and social matters (Serbia), issue XIX (the Carnal Libartes) – poetry (as the author)
Jul 2019
PULSE Magazine (Serbia), online – Silazak (Descent), a short story collection (as the author)
Jun 2017
Marsonic, a sci-fi short story anthology (Slavonski Brod, Croatia), issue 11 – Test (as the author)
May 2017
Buktinja, a magazine for literature, arts and culture (Negotin, Serbia), issue 50 – Winston Tong (poetry, as the author)
Mar 2017
BUKVAR EKOLOŠKOG PONAŠANJA: Ja živim zdravo, a ti? (CHILDREN’S ALPHABET BOOK ON ECOLOGICAL ETIQUETTE: I live healthy, how about you?) by Dragan Litričin (Kindle Edition, self-published; original: Narodna knjiga Alfa, 2004, Belgrade, Serbia) – translation from Serbian to English
Mar 2012
Frenzy Spark, an online magazine about pop culture and popular science (Serbia) – Ilustracije ludila i zdravog razuma: Džejms Tili Metjus, Džon Haslam i zločini Vazdušnog razboja (Illustrations of madness and sanity: James Tilly Matthews, John Haslam and the Air Loom crimes), pt. 1 and 2 (as the author)