An art party featuring music and visual artists from Singapore and Le Pompon, Paris
Fri 2 Sep | 9pm – 2am | Glass Hall, Singapore Art Museum | Admission is free - Dope.sg presents chic Parisian club, Le Pompon live at the Singapore Art Museum during the Voyage Night Festival along with DJs from the creative collective, Pain O choKolat, French beatboxer Tez as well as Singapore’s DJ Has.
Founded by Charaf Tajer from the Pain O choKolat collective, Le Pompon is the famed underground club from Paris. The place is a former synagogue situated in Paris’s 10th Arrondissement, east of the city. The ground floor hosts a restaurant and a lounge while the ‘secret’ basement holds the club that has seen acts such the Black Keys, Two Door Cinema Club, Verbal, Jamaica, Kreayshawn and attracted celebrities such as Nicole Richie, Lenny Kravitz or Kanye West in a very speak-easy environment. Le Pompon have also organized parties with Parisian boutique Colette, fashion label Louis Vuitton and Chloé, and music labels Kitsuné and Ed Bangers.
Pain O choKolat is French for croissant with chocolate filling? Not since the rise of Pain O choKolat, the creative crew from Paris. The collective is involved with music, fashion, arts, events, exhibitions, photography that makes up their multi-disciplinary platform. Compromising Stephane Ashpool, Hami Delimi and Paul Hamy in the beginning, the crew has grown with the additions of Charaf Tajer, Vladimir Ramsey, Medhi Aboualiten, Brice Torres, Lionel Ebombo, Alexis Sequera and Helmi Charni.
Tez, a Paris based beatboxer has performed at Le Pompon as well as at the Pain O choKolat block parties. He spent two years travelling the world with the 2 sisters from Cocorosie and has performed in Japan, Australia and the USA.
DJ Has is one of Singapore’s premier DJs in the club scene. He won the very first Nike Street Style Music Award in 2001 and has never looked back since. His DJ-ing adventures have taken him to the likes of Bali, Puerto Rico, New York, Paris and London.
Also keep a lookout for a collaboration between artist Mojoko and interactive developer Shang Liang entitled Reactive Wall. The visual art will showcase over 200 elements including popular local and graphic icons that have become a familiar part of our lives over the years. By making sounds through microphones, visitors can generate more icons which will pop up and cover the wall. This combination of human participation and contemporary graphics sampled from everyday life will make Reactive Wall a fun, interactive artwork that visitors can relate to in many ways. Voyage Night Festival.
