Martin Clarke and Alicja Rogalska | England, Poland

Martin Clarke is a sound artist, recordist and filmmaker, based in Birmingham since 2003. His work makes use of environmental material to create semi abstract non-representational spaces where sounds are treated as though filmed, with varying depths of field and images are treated as sounds, layered and composed. Recent projects include participation in The Sound of Snow and Ice for Gruenrekorder, The Urban Lighthouse for Architecture Week 2006, and Voyager, a large-scale sound and video work.

Alicja Rogalska is an artist from Poland, based in the UK since 2006.  Her work utilises participation, photography and installation but she is currently planning projects that involve use of performance and video. Alicja has been working internationally for a number of years, managing and delivering arts projects in Poland, Sweden and the UK. One of her current projects includes collaborations with women from diverse backgrounds across the West Midlands to create self-portraits.

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Project: Nodar Audio-Visual Plateaus
Category: Phonography, Audiovisual Performance
Period: July 2007
Event: Art Residency

Martin’s sound work involves travel and the capturing of specific sonic spaces, and he is particularly interested in catching and reproducing a kind of “distilled” sense of place”.

Alicja’s photographic practice is to a great extent participatory, which is to say that she likes to involve her subjects as much as possible in the creative process.

Joining these two work perspectives, the artists during their residency in Nodar intend to produce a series of audio-visual plateaus based on video footage and sound recordings taken from the surrounding area and of local people.

Each as a staged imaged with an emphasis on the creation of magical atmosphere in order to represent and create a set of alternative mythologies of the place and its people.

1. Video conceived and presented during the residency ("Paiva Tales"):

2. Project's photo selection:

Photos by Binaural and by Martin Clarke & Alicja Rogalska