Movement Production by Jerome AB, 2025

DOOM: house of hope

presented at the Park Avenue Armory, curated by Klaus Beisenbach

 

director: Anne Imhof

production lead: Nadja Rangel

direction assist: Eliza Douglas

artist assist: Gato

 

choreographer: Josh Johnson

scenography: Niklas Bildstein Zaar, Sub

lighting design: Urs Schönebaum

music direction: Ville Haimala

sound design: Mark Grey

costumes by Eliza Douglas

Movement Producer: Jerome Austin Bwire

live feed: Tess Petronio

photography by Nadine Fraczkowski

 

Choreography, Creative and Movement Direction by Jerome AB, 2023

SWIMWEAR 23 PRESENTATION

at the Palm Heights, Grand Cayman

 

Client: Ludovic De Saint Sernin

Creative Direction and Scenic Design by Jerome AB, 2023

‘RED MOON IN VENUS’ TOUR 

COACHELLA 2023 MAIN STAGE

Client: Kali Uchis

Directed by Jerome AB, 2022

’Fiend’ by Keaton Savage

Starring Keaton Savage, Kellian Delice and Tate Justas

 

Director: Jerome AB

Cinematographer: Maddy Talias

Assistant Camera: Kendall Edwards

Gaffer: Sam McDermott

Playback & Swing: Kinlaw

Styling & Costume Design: Jacquelinne Cingolani

Edit & Color: Alex Russek

Title & Credits: Quincy Banks

Stage Direction, Choreography and Curation by Jerome AB, 2022

The Iconic Ball Performance Dinner

Client: Palm Heights, Grand Cayman

 

An immersive dinner experience and party with performances by Eartheater with Yves Tumor, Shygirl and Lourdes Leon’s first live set. Documented by Daniel Arnold.

Directed and Choreographed by Jerome AB, 2022

’Turn the Table’ MV by Empress Of

Client: Empress Of

 

Director: Jerome AB

DP: Bruce Gordon

Drone Operator: Sheila Eden

Production Design: Charlotte Crocker

Choreographer: Jerome AB

Stylist: Chris Horan

Editor: Alex Russek

Graphics: Hernan Ayala Tirado

Special thanks to Gerardo Gonzalez and Palm Heights, Grand Cayman

PRODUCTION DESIGN BY JEROME AB, 2022

FREQUENCY PRESENTS A SUNDAY DINNER

Client: Spotify
Director: Keenan MacWilliam

Talent: Victoria Monet, Joyce Wrice, Guapdad 4000, Vince Staples, Hit Boy and Duckwrth

Installation, video and soundscape by Jerome AB
At Once Terrifying and Equally Freeing, 2021

4-channel video, brushed aluminum, found debris, sound

8’ x 12’H
Video: 07:49 min
Score: 20:00 min

Director of Photography: Maddy Talias
Gaffer: John Izaparte
Video Editor: Matthew Delatorre
Sound design: Killian Brom with support by Brian Bryne
Vocals: Eartheater
Strings: Jasminfire
Movement performed by Morgan Bobrow-Williams and Quenton Stuckey
Shot at Greenwood Studios, Brooklyn, NY

 

Jerome AB’s At Once Terrifying and Equally Freeing (2021) is a mixed-media installation, movement video, and soundscape.

A case study in surrender, the work consists of an artifact, once buried beneath compounded terrain, now displayed within the museum walls. Its provenance unaccounted for, the 12’ high metal structure operates like a time capsule, nestled in excavated ground.

Inside the enclosure is a three-dimensional video file, attempting to relay a psychological unraveling captured in real time. Past glitches of lapsed memories, the video’s subject comes to a road diverged.

In one instance, we can choose to find comfort in the cards we have been dealt, to live life on life’s terms. In another, our circumstances can feel like they are closing in on us, with the only option left to fight.

What starts as one figure, splits, and fragments into a multiplicity of being. At Once Terrifying and Equally Freeing explores the existence of two seemingly opposing truths that can co-exist as one reality.

Set to a deteriorating meditative score, a self-help spiral featuring multi-instrumentalists Eartheater and Jasminfire, AB’s At Once Terrifying and Equally Freeing explores what it means to relinquish control and to find courage in faith.

 

Jerome AB’s At Once Terrifying and Equally Freeing is organized by Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo) as
part of Toby’s Prize.

1/30-6/5/2022

 

Interior Architecture by Jerome AB, 2019

Roc Nation LA Offices

Client: Jay-Z, Roc Nation
Creative Director: Willo Perron

 

Lead Interior Architect: Jerome AB
Interior Architect: Jerome Byron
Interior Designer: Lindsey Chan

 

Photos by Shade Degges as featured in Architectural Digest

Ongoing Performative Series and Audiovisual Practice by Jerome Austin Bwire

Masculine Ken on the Secret We Share, 2018

With spoken word by Precious Okoyomon, illustrations by Neil Gilks and Katie Armstrong

In an attempt to heal, Ken loses his digital self in a maddening research spell on stigmas around mental illnesses, inflicted upon/within ourselves in poc communities and by the other; ~white professionals~ resting on the laurels of institutionalized racism, to sift through the truths found in the misinformation of overstimulation, toxic masculinity, prayer and balance.

Length: 14:30

 

 

#MASCULINEKEN is an ongoing performative series featuring an expressionless humanoid character of unintelligible African origins portrayed by Jerome AB and extensions thereof, all dubbed Masculine Ken. In these pieces, Masculine Ken observes and confronts various psychological defense mechanisms, processes and falsified intrapersonal realities defined by (in)human(e) exchanges through movement and visual audio manipulation.

 

 

Masculine Ken on the Secret We Share v.3 was presented as a short film curated by Alima Lee for the Women’s Center of Creative Work’s ‘Films For Escapism‘ series in response to the first Covid-19 lockdown of 2020. The series also included films by Featuring works by Sarah Nicole Francois, summer fucking mason and Rhea Dillon.

 

Masculine Ken on the Secret We Share v.2 was presented as a live performance and screening at Navel in Los Angeles as commissioned for the 2018 Queer Biennial.

 

Masculine Ken on the Secret We Share v.1 was presented as a live performance in a storefront window on Sept 27, 2017 at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery in New York City.