Collaboration with Dillan Marsh. Multi media installation with structural intervention shown at Galleri BOA, Oslo, 2017. The exhibition was supported by Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond and Oslo Kommune. Read exhibition review by Tommy Olsson for Klassekampen here. More images and video here.

Collaboration with Dillan Marsh. Audio-visual installation shown at Archipelago, Hordaland Kunstsenter, 2016. More information here.

Commissioned by BLOKK at Torvsalen, Gamle Bergen, 2016.

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

A performance incorporating live and pre-recorded voice and music.

A collaboration with Dillan Marsh, shown at Parabol Bergen, 2016.

Multi media installation with audio played through a parabolic speaker at the threshold of Stiftelsen 3,14 Gallery.
More inforamation about the collaboration here.

Collaboration with Dillan Marsh, shown at Assembly House Leeds as part of About Time Festival, 2015 and at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 2015.
Supported by The Norwegian Arts Council, Bergen Kommune.
Further information about the collaboration here.

Heiemo, kva det sång i li, med minne; Det høyrde Nykkjen på havet skri: «Tvo rosir sove derinne».

A traditional folksong is sung into a microphone, which sends a delay signal to the loudspeakers. The singer’s voice is heard at first only acoustically, but gradually the delay begins to be heard through the speakers. As the layers of delay increase, the singer stops singing, and the sound crescendos before gradually fading away. The sound moves from the live, accoustic performance of the singer, to each of the speakers.

Performance below filmed by Denis Romanovski at PALS Festival, Fylkingen, Sweden.

The suggestion of a journey, magical and mystical, at times painful; the need to connect to something constant. 

Produced with Kam Wan (film projections) & Marcus Davidson (music soundtrack & vocal harmonies). I am grateful to Ellen Southern for her invitation to produce work based on her remix score of The Brilliant & The Dark, and to BEK and The Drawing Room for their support in kind.
Video excerpt from performance at BAS Old Grain Silo.
Performed by Eleanor Clare, Johanne Birkeland, Natalie Sandtorv and Karoline Wallace.

The Unicorns follow The Chalice to their destination; a procession throughout this building soon to lose its current purpose.  The spectacle could be experienced almost as though it were an apparition.

The piece was realised as a live performance, and also as a sound installation situated on all 9 floors of the main stairway/liftwell at Central Saint Martins, Charing Cross Road. First performed at Central Saint Martins School of Art, Charing Cross Road, 2011. Concept, costumes and music by Eleanor Clare. Unicorns: Hannah Byrne & Hollie Stewart.  Choreographed by Dagmara Bilon. Sound engineered by Andrew Dickens.  Final track in collaboration with Ben Trinkle. Video excerpt filmed and edited by Mariana Rocha. Photograph by Michael Williams. Listen to audio here.

Instead of a sinuous fish’s tale, a cod’s head pokes out from between the legs of the siren/mermaid. In fact it is merely apparel, as are the blonde wig and the huge lips - but as an apparition of fantasy, the character is hybrid and ambiguous.  In the myth of the Vagina Dentata, a meat eating fish inhabits the vagina of the Great Mother.  The hero breaks the teeth out of her vagina, so making her into a real woman.  The desires of the Great Mother are silenced through the breaking of the teeth.  It could also be surmised that the Great Mother, whose vagina is ‘inhabited’ by the fish, feels herself to be complete, and that this renders the purpose of a ‘real man’ (opposed to a ‘real woman’) redundant. 

DVD projection; 2.04 mins.

Written performed, & edited by Eleanor Clare; music in collaboration with Fyn Wyr; filmed by Kam Wan

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