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Bio
Jason Stoneking is a writer, artist, and performer originally from the United States, who has made his home in Paris, France. He has published several collections of poetry and essays, released an album of original songs, and written several screenplays. He has been performing his art and writing live for more than 30 years, at venues ranging from the main stage at Lollapalooza to the Pont Neuf in Paris and the rooftops of Cairo. In recent years, his practice has concentrated on the creation of handwritten and site-specific texts. For his Bespoke Books series, he writes an entire unique book by hand, in a single draft, for an individual reader, event, or residency. In his video series Found Stages, he improvises spontaneous poems in public spaces that feel suitable, if not intended, for performance. For his newest series, Portrait Sittings, he invites subjects to sit for him as they would for a painter, while he composes their portrait in handwritten words, then presents them with the original manuscript he has drafted during the session.
Performances + Exhibitions
2025 Jan, group show at Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris Mar 15, group livestream reading with Paris Heretics for Lit Balm 2024 Jan 23, guest performance at Prose and Woes, Cork Jan 28, curated group performance at Dublin’s Finest, Dublin Jan 29, featured performer at Circle Sessions, Dublin Feb 17, guest reading for launch of The Future of Surfing at Ofr, Paris Mar 13, guest reading for launch of The White Fin Project at Pral, Paris Apr 20, guest reading at Love Love Magazine party, Paris Apr 27. guest performance for Lala Drona: Virtual Reverence, at Elios Gallery, Paris June, residency with Cie Hekau at The Melting Pot, France June 13, curated radio performance for Lumpen Station, Switzerland Sep 19, featured performer at Vocable Poets, Lismore, Australia Sep 27, curated group performance at Gaffa Gallery for Poetry Sydney, Sydney, Australia Sep 30, featured performer at Poetry at the Pub, Newcastle, Australia Oct 1, featured performer at Passionate Tongues Poetry, Melbourne, Australia Nov, residency and performance for Swerve Magazine, Skibbereen, Ireland Dec 31, street performance outside Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris 2023 Jan 24, curated group performance at Castel, Paris Feb 21, curated group performance at Ivy Writers, Paris Mar 2, introductory act for the Bad Pelicans at Point Ephemere, Paris Mar 18, group performance with Paris Heretics at Void Voices, Rotterdam Mar 19, group performance with Paris Heretics at ACU, Utrecht July, residency and performance with Cie Hekau at le Petit Théâtre du Bât de l'Âne, France July 31, featured performer at Sidewalk, Beirut Nov 27, featured performer at Spoken Word, Paris Dec 12, curated group reading of Checklist 33, Biel/Bienne (remote) Dec 13, featured performer at The Ramshackle, Utrecht 2022 Mar 25, featured performer at Espace Canopy, Paris May, group show at Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris May 25, solo performance at Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris Oct 12 curated group reading for Verse of April, Paris Oct 14 guest performance with Merry Youth at Les Bains, Paris Nov 15 curated group performance at Castel, Paris 2021 Jan-Dec, continuation of “Found Stages” series, multiple locations / online July 9, premiere of short film by Cie Hekau based on my story The Butterfly and the Stone, at Shadows Across the Globe Puppetry Festival, San Diego (remote) Oct 22, panel discussion at Marché de la Poésie, Paris 2020 June, group show Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris (remote) Oct-Dec, beginning of my series Found Stages, solo online video poetry performances, conducted in empty public places during the pandemic restrictions, multiple locations / online 2019 Oct 20, solo performance for Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre at Cite International des Arts, Paris Oct 24, in discussion with Katy Martin at Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre
Publications + Recordings
2024 Jan, SubberCulture, podcast interview Feb, Ofr/Perfect Designs, The Future of Surfing, prose Mar, Pral/Perfect Designs, The White Fin Project, prose June, Lumpen Station, curated group radio performance July, World Radio Paris, This is Not a Poem, podcast interview Aug, Swerve Magazine, open letter Aug, Birdcage Radio, Under the Albatross, podcast interview Oct, The Weekly Write/Alex Morris, blog interview Nov, Grenzprobleme, album by Paul* Hermansen, poetry Dec, Gaffa Gallery/Poetry Sydney, Future Movement, show catalog Dec, In Telescope Time, Poetry at the Pub Newcastle, anthology 2023 Jan, Love Love Magazine, written portrait Feb, Tentacular Magazine, prose June, Paris Underground Radio, City of Muses, podcast interview June, Stained Glass Arrangements, album by Alison Grace Koehler, guest musician 2022 Dec, La Vie Creative, podcast interview 2021 July, Yes the Void, poetry 2020 Feb, Checklist 33, poetry April, Zeles Magazine, open letter 2019 Apr, Verse of April, poetry Apr, Luna Speaks, podcast interview May, Empty Mirror, blog interview July, High Times Magazine, excerpted interview To download the full CV click here