The Poachers Dream, Visningsrommet USF, Bergen

He saw something in the darkness. He searches his memory for its form. It was here, it left its shadow with him; he can feel its presence. It watches him, waits for him. He is caught in its flow now; it draws him in, through the darkness and down the narrow passage.

The Poacher’s work is to trespass; inhabiting the dark and hidden places. He penetrates his prey with a bullet, or untangles its entrails from a trap. He is well acquainted with the insides and outsides of things, with the dead and the living, with creation and destruction. Under the skin, much is fluid. This is where the unconscious is at work, digesting and processing and merging and separating matter.

The exhibition will consist of multiple channels of sound and video - spoken and sung narratives that unfold as one moves through the space. Much of the inspiration for this work came from being in a landscape – of walking in the woods or approaching monuments, connecting these experiences to folk tales or the mysterious practices of early cultures. We have had an extensive research period over the last few years at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, where we have gathered material. All the audio, including music, is either from manipulated field recordings taken on site or vocal recordings. 


Supported by BEK, Bergen Kommune and Kunstsentrene i Norge


















Work List

Video Installation on Three
Projection Screens (room 1 and 2): Field recordings taken at Yorkshire Sculpture Park throughout the seasons; varying length clips.

8 channel Sound
Installation (room 1 and 2): audio material entirely produced from field recordings taken on site at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and vocal recordings. List of titles below:

The Poacher’s Dream
Hepworth Hardcore
The First Hole is a Revelation
The Poacher’s Lament
The Watchers
Itchy Balls
Constipation Hypnotation
Recorder Harmony (Derby Tup/Drive Old Winter Away)
Sleepy Head
Shadows Opera
The Shadow Poacher

Objects:
Speaker Effigies (room 2), card, acrylic, wood
Spoon on a Stick: Mr. Jazz Spoon (room 1), plaster, twig, metal spoon, tape, vocals
The Peeper (room 1), framed image, felt pen on paper
The Poacher’s Dream (room 1), publication with texts and images

The Poacher's Dream, 15-25th November, USF Visningsrommet, Bergen

Solo exhibition by Dillan Marsh & Eleanor Clare, more info here
Supported by BEK, Kunstsentrene i Norge and Bergen Kommune. 

He saw something in the darkness. He searches his memory for its form. It was here, it left its shadow with him; he can feel its presence. It watches him, waits for him. He is caught in its flow now; it draws him in, through the darkness and down the narrow passage. 

Finse Camp PAB x PAO, 24-26th August 2018
















Processional performance of The Watchers, by Eleanor Clare and Dillan Marsh, 2018.
One performer in an open landscape with loudspeaker. 
More information about PAB: performanceartbergen.no

Sound documentation of performance:



Perchten Tryptich at Maria Øy Lojos Historieboden 19-24th June

Perchten Tryptich, Eleanor Clare 2018, l-r: Perchten #1 (2017), acrylic on paper, Perchten #2 (2017), white oil pastel with acrylic wash, Bleeding Heart Dream #1 (2015), acrylic on paper

Perchten Tryptich, 2018; installation view at Maria Øy Lojos Historieboden, USF Bergen



She’s coming for your guts!
She’ll rip your guts out,
Cackling while she cuts
Your hopes and dreams out.







The Travels of the Toucher at Maria Øy Lojos Historieboden

Images and publications by Eleanor Clare & Dillan Marsh will be shown at Visningsrommet, USF in Bergen from 19th June - 1st July 2018. More info about Maria Øy Lojos Historieboden
installation view: Comedy & Tragedy by Eleanor Clare & Dillan Marsh, collage, 2014
installation view, left: The Hand and the Hole, acrylic on paper, 2015; right, The Mound, Granton, Edinburgh, C-print, 2015
installation view


The Toucher & The Teller, Kunstkontaineren 19-24th June

video installation  by Eleanor Clare & Dillan Marsh, showing at Kunstkontaineren, USF Verftet, Bergen,  19-24th June 2018


still image from The Toucher & The Teller, video installation, Eleanor Clare & Dillan Marsh 2016

Cold Current - Fumbling at the Firmament

Eleanor Clare & Dillan Marsh will be showing an installation of Fumbling at the Firmament at Galleria Adiacenze, Bologna, as part of the group show Cold Current. Their presence at this exhibition is supported by Bergen Kommune. 

Visus Tactus Gustus documentation