Bergen International Performance Festival

Bergen International Performance Festival is produced by PAB, jointly directed by Kurt Johannessen, Anett Haukås & Eleanor Clare.


Din Søte Forening å Smake - full version of documentation


Din Søte Forening å Smake from Eleanor Clare on Vimeo.

Devised and performed by Eleanor Clare. Commissioned by BLOKK presentere, Torvsalen, Gamle Bergen, 2016. 

Lyrics and melody in the final section have been extracted from 'Jesus din søte forening å smake', Allendorf 1712/Hygrom 1740. English translation of lyrics sung: "your sweet union to taste/is longed for and needed with heart and with mind/tear me from all that holds me back/draw me to you, my beginning, inside/show me with clarity/my powerlessness and struggle/show me the abyss of corruption within me/that its nature could turn to the death/the spirit alone must live for you.

Din Søte Forening å Smake

Performance for BLOKK Bergen at Torvsalen, Gamle Bergen.

Black bats surround you
We’ll come around you
To show you that we care

The message that comes must be delivered by the voice, feeling its way around the room, reaching out to touch the listener.

Time and Space residency at Metal, Chalkwell Hall

About Time Festival Leeds: The Travels of the Toucher

An exhibition by Eleanor Clare & Dillan Marsh at Assembly House, 20/11/2015 til 28/11/2015 


With cardboard boxes over their heads, and two holes punched out for their arms, they began with wet clay, and without any other idea than to see what came by handling it. What they arrived at was not a sculpture, but a way to begin. The forms were destroyed and remodelled – the possibility to reform them was always there. It was a way to get to the thing. Read more...


untitled collage: Dillan Marsh & Eleanor Clare


Visus Tactus Gustus documentation