Eleanor Clare

GHost Hostings 14 – GHost-dance IV: the ghost without, the ghost within

A night of three distinct performances exploring ghosts as socio-cultural movement and human energy from without and within.

Hostings 14 images, Stasis 73, Eleanor Clare, London Lucumi Choir photo by Nadjib Le Fleurier

12/03/2014 6.30pm – 9.30pm
Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, Studio Theatre, Granary Square, London, N1C 4AAGHost hosts an evening of cross-disciplinary performance which continue to explore the GHost-dance theme.

GHost Hostings 14 is supported by the Drama And Performance Programme. Central St Martins School of Arts

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PROGRAMME
Home. Stasis 73, I Am Still Within You. Eleanor Clare, Kam Wan and Marcus Davidson.
The energy of Orisha, In Art Dance and Song: A multi-disciplined look at Yoruban deities. Daniela Rosselson De Armas and The London Lucumi Choir
Note: running order may be subject to change

A Voice and Something Else

As a group, Sofie Knudsen Jansson, Elisabeth Færøy Lund and myself were delegates at this practice based conference in Aberystwyth convened by Rebecca Louise Collins and Marios Chatziprokopiou.

The purpose of the unique practice-based conference format was to forge relations amongst a range of academics, professionals, and artists all working in relation to the voice and listening. The conference fostered working relationships, collaborations, and further possibilities for knowledge production through creative means.

Bringing together scholars, practitioner's and artists who may or may not have a common critical or practical approach to the subject area, stimulated intellectual debate, discussions, and practices in an ever-expanding niche area.

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Photograph by Sofie Knudsen Jansson

Elisabeth Færøy Lund, Sofie Knudsen Jansson and Eleanor Clare at AVASE

Talk by John Harvey at AVASE

Mark Leahy, Eleanor Clare, Live Marianne Noven & Sofie Knudsen Jansson

Rubbestadneset residency for A Voice and Something Else

In preparation for our presentation at the conference A Voice and Something Else, we worked phonetically and aurally from the vantage point of our own three languages, Norwegian, Danish and English with the Norwegian song Kjerkegård ved Havet, melody by Moddi and lyrics by Helge Stangnes. The song is performed by Moddi here:
Lyrics here: http://www.moddi.no/lyrics.html#kjerkegaardvedhavet

This is a song that has been written in the folk tradition, which originally used primarily the oral as it's source of distribution between communities. We focused our attention on the nuances of emotion and diction in each others' rendition of the verses. Listening and vocal mimeses were our main tools in this exercise.

Eleanor Clare Elisabeth Færøy Lund Sofie Knudsen Jansson

Eleanor Clare & Elisabeth Færøy Lund photographed by Sofie Knusden Jansson.

Lofoten Residency for A Voice and Something Else

A week long residency in Lofoten with Sofie Knudsen Jansson and Elisabeth Færøy Lund in preparation for the A Voice and Something Else conference held at the University of Aberystwyth. Here we experimented with a day of silence, a listening tour by each of us - allowing ourselves to hear what is often overlooked, especially in nature, and a series of vocal and physical exercises in which we explored perception and communication.

eye contact becomes charged when words are not spoken

we heard birds while we were hidden
the sound of ice melting, dripping drop by drop
the roar of the ocean travelling far out into the horizon

photo by Sofie Knudsen Jansson: Eleanor Clare, Sofie Knudsen Jansson and Elisabeth Færøy Lund on residency in Lofoten

In and Out of Tune documentation from PAB OPEN

A durational performance which took place in the segregated yard of Bergen's Old Prison.

In and Out of Tune by Sofie Knudsen Jansson, Elisabeth Færoy Lund and Eleanor Clare from Eleanor Clare on Vimeo.

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.

In and Out of Tune by Eleanor Clare, Sofie Knudsen Jansson and Elisabeth Færøy Lund

Nothing About Trees Virtual Tour

Nothing About Trees Group Show, London, October 2013 from Kam Wan on Vimeo.

PAB OPEN Tune in and Tune Out at the Gamle Kretsfengsel

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.