Eleanor Clare

Listening, waiting, focus shifting inwards and outwards. A radius of sound around me in this solitary space. Sometimes I hear movement on the other side of the wall, comforting and encouraging. The leaves feel soft and caressing, I cannot see them but they add a richness to my sensations.

Eleanor Clare, Elisabeth Færøy Lund, Sofie Knudsen Jansson at PAB OPEN

I Am Still Within You at Bergen Arkitekt Skole Old Grain Silo

Here are some installation stills from the exhibition and performance

Eleanor Clare performing with Johanne Birkeland, Natalie Sandtorv & Karoline Wallace

Film installation by Kam Wan for the sound piece Nebula Fields by Marcus Davidson

Film installation for I Am Still Within You by Eleanor Clare, Kam Wan & Marcus Davidson

Nothing About Trees

Eleanor Clare, Kam Wan and Marcus Davidson will be showing their collaborative piece 'I Am Still Within You'

I Am Still Within You - exhibition and live performance

I Am Still Within You

I Am Still Within You is devised by Eleanor Clare in collaboration with Kam Wan and Marcus Davidson (with thanks to Mathias Arvastsson for technical help). It will be performed by Eleanor Clare, Johanne Birkeland, Natalie Sandtorv and Karoline Wallace. During the performance, singers move through the darkness of the space. At times they will be lit by the projections, but the emphasis will be on the affect of their voices on the space, and the movement of sound in relation to the projected images. The audience can become immersed into this atmosphere, if they so wish. Nebula Fields, a sound piece by Marcus Davidson, will run durationally before and after the performance, with a film installation by Kam Wan.

Nebula Fields

When we look through telescopes or simply peer at the sky at night, we imagine space as a vast empty void, thinly populated by stars, planets and galaxies. But modern quantum physics tells us that even the most remote and lonely points in the universe pulsate with the energy of the zero point field. So all space is energy, therefore all space is frequency, therefore the universe IS sound.

The ancient Hindus said that the universe began with the word Om. When you listen to the space recordings, this word is ever constant. It makes you wonder what these ancient people really knew. It seems the universe is full of sound, yet our senses can only detect a very narrow window of it.

All the sounds on this installation are either actual processed recordings of space sounds made by space craft or land based listening posts, or sounds made to represent the feeling of engaging with the void of space, and simply observing it. (Marcus Davidson)

Film Projection

For me, the Moon offers endless fascination. Never static in its phase or position in the sky, it is the epitome of transient beauty.

She is time. She is a mirror.

She is timeless. She is a hole.

In taking the Moon's image, I am not attempting to capture its beauty but rather to acknowledge its own particular temporality and rhythm. The Moon is a beacon in a way that the Sun is not. We may stare full face to the Moon but, apparently, we risk madness.

My wider practice concerns Nature and physical processes. The body in space and how it endures duration is a central interest. Through drawing, I always leave an open invitation for processes and forces external to me to join in the exercise in many different capacities. Thus change, spontaneity, chance, decay and solidification are perennial bedfellows. (Kam Wan)

PAB OPEN @ Gamle Kretsfengsel in Bergen

Showing a collaborative durational performance with Elisabeth Færøy Lund and Sofie Knudsen-Jansson; In and Out of Tune

Three individuals in three cells are shifting between an internal and external focus. They are tuning into their surroundings by practicing attentive listening and intuitive vocal response.

The audience are invited to ring the bell, which will bring the three individuals into tune.

Once a day they come together to share a meal, and will at this time only focus on the action of communal eating.

June Twenty-First, published by Apis Press 2013

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Apis Press Publication Eleanor Clare Dillan Marsh

Apis Press Publication Eleanor Clare Dillan Marsh

At Home with the Ludski's #9: Voyage and Return

It happened! The London premier of I Am Still Within You since the new arrangement of the score for vocal harmony by Marcus Davidson, with a film projection designed for his composition by Kam Wan. I was accompanied by the singers Alexandra Anzemberger, Sharon Bowen & Maddy Cullen.

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Eleanor Clare, Kam Wan, Marcus Davidson at home with the ludskis

June Twenty-First

Dillan Marsh presents the exhibition June Twenty-First at Entrée. As the title suggest the opening will be on the summer solstice, inviting you to participate in the marking of the longest day and shortest night of the year. In an immersive construction Marsh is activating a number of rituals and he employs commercial tactics like repetition, speed and distraction. The title is fixing the exhibition to a specific time and examines how we relate to the larger systems we are taking part of through participating in smaller events. Entrée finds itself re-branded and built into the concept of the work on show. Join us for June Twenty-First at 8pm!

Following the exhibition is a new Apis Press publication by Bjørn Mortensen with texts by Eleanor Clare. The exhibition will also contain a new edition of prints from collaboration with Patrick Wagner.

Dillan Marsh (b.1980, UK) lives and works in Bergen where he graduated from Bergen Academy of Art and Design in 2011. He has participated in exhibitions and projects internationally including Sculpture Space, Utica NY, Tag Team, Bergen and Künstlerhaus Dortmund.

www.dillanmarsh.com
www.entreebergen.no

mybeautifulson with Zena Blackwell

Bmybeautifulson is a web-based collaborative work by Zena Blackwell. It was originally devised for Art Lab #1 Bern which was opened out as an opportunity to exhibit, collaborate and co-curate by Olivia Notaro. Here is my addition to the whole.

Low Lying Cloud Shelter

PAB performance meeting 04.05.2013

Sydnesplassen and around, Bergen.

Raindrops patter on plastic, which is a protection. It makes me feel safe. The wind is blowing this large sheet of plastic away, but I hold on tight, even though by the end it is falling apart. Sometimes it obscures my vision, and I can't see other people's faces. That's OK.

Elisabeth Færøy Lund was my sole companion for the duration of this event. She states that she is in a constant search for 'the moment of movement.' As I perceive it, she creates sensitive improvisation, responding to her surroundings and those she encounters.