Jonny Seymour
About
Jonny Seymour is a music producer, curator, broadcaster, sound stylist, animal liberationist, vegan, queer activist, deep agathist and major collaborator.
They work with artists & institutions across many disciplines including dance, film, design, theatre, song & experimental art forms.
They produce music under various aliases including stereogamous (with Paul Mac) and has worked with artists such as George Michael, Kylie, Grace Jones, RÜFÜS, Sia, The Presets, Brendan Maclean, Jamaica and Shaun J Wright.
They have performed at major festivals including Glastonbury, Burning Man, Sydney Mardi Gras, Pride festivals from New York, Berlin, Finland and even Hobart as well as iconic clubbing institutions Berghain & Horse Meat Disco
They are resident & curator at Queerbourhood, a weekly LGBTIQA performance night at The Bearded Tit, voted Sydney's best neighbourhood bar. They are one part of club kooky (with dj gemma and Georgia Pea) Sydney's longest running club night dedicated to queer performance and music & also part of the Voguey Bear & Trough collectives.
They are a “friend of Carriageworks” and collaborate with cultural institutions such as The Powerhouse Museum, Performance Space, Sydney Mardi Gras, Force Majeure, The Red Rattler, National Gallery of Victoria, 107 Projects, Belvoir Street and Sydney Theatre Company.
They are music director for several fashion houses, labels & events including Sydney Fashion Week, VAMFF, Jenny Kee, Mary Katrantzou, Romance Was Born, Philip Treacy, Akira Isogawa, Carla Zampatti, Camilla and many more. They have collaborated on works exhibited in Parsons School of Design (NYC) , Galleries Lafayette (Paris) The Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. They bring over a quarter of a century of lived experience of night-time culture, the AIDS epidemic, the generational and gentrification shifts in community spaces, and the intrinsic importance of music plates in all these intersections. For queer community music is one of our ephemeral but essential safe spaces.
Working Class Clown 2024
Past Programs