Pesky Kid is the work of Benjamin Champagne and Pierre Saint-Jupiter. (How many monikers does this guy have?!)

I’m a multimedia artist working across music, writing, film, curation, and performance. I’ve been in long-term recovery from drug addiction and have been entirely abstinent since 2014. Since then, nearly every part of my life has revolved around art and entertainment.

By day, I’m the Associate Curator at the Saginaw Art Museum and Assistant Production Manager at the historic Temple Theatre. Outside of those roles, I promote concerts throughout Michigan and perform as Pesky Kid in many of the same clubs and venues where I’ve worked behind the scenes.

At the center of all of this is writing. I write every day: journals, essays, poems, short stories, scripts, lyrics and notes. My first screenplay was produced in 2026, but every project I make begins in a journal long before it becomes a song, exhibition, or film.

Much of my approach comes from the DIY world. For more than five years I operated a small independent venue that hosted hundreds of concerts alongside art exhibitions, workshops, political organizing, legal briefings, yoga classes, sound baths, drum circles, and just about anything that brought people together. During that time I also worked with Fusion Shows, The Crofoot, and Audiotree producing concerts across the country and touring as a live sound engineer.

The music of Pesky Kid reflects that same spirit. Songs are built from acoustic instruments, synthesizers, found sounds, field recordings, internet ephemera, and whatever else seems worth listening to. Beyond music, the project extends into zines, collages, poetry, films, and digital “dupes”—images assembled from fragments of the internet until they resemble something familiar while becoming something entirely new.

This website is an archive of that work: finished projects, works in progress, field notes, exhibitions, films, and the ideas that connect them.

 

Peskykiddd@gmail.com