Catherine
Clover
Goldsmiths, University of London / Swinburne University in Naarm/Melbourne / RMIT University, Naarm/Melbourne
@cclover
My multidisciplinary practice addresses communication through voice, language and the interplay between hearing/listening, seeing/reading. Using field recording, digital imaging and the spoken/written word I explore an expanded approach to language within and across species through a framework of everyday experience, including the use of extant material and found footage. With listening as a key focus and the complexity of the urban as a shared sonic space, the artworks prompt transmission and reception through the fluidity, instability and mobility of voicing and languaging. The artworks are social in nature and frequently involve collaboration with other artists and with audiences. Their forms include public artworks, soundwalks, field recordings, performance, readings, texts/scores, sound, installation, imaging.
Recent (2023,2024) selected projects include Homing Songs MPavilion, Melbourne; Yuen Po Bird Market The Listening Academy, Hong Kong; Passage Migrants, Dark Skies and the Skyscrapers of Hong Kong Alternative School/Para Site, Hong Kong; Quiet Urgency, SonCitiesxMACities, Central St Martins London UK; Wallcreeper Biennale d'Aix with LabGamerz, France; Larking TO)pot Sound Walks Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Music and Other Living Creatures X Encounters, Helen Frosi and Café Oto, London; Inhabitants curated by Angela Bartram, collaboration with Steve Baker, for (Un)Common Worlds, Oulu, Finland; Art and the City: Urban Space, Art and Social Change Columbia Global Center (CGC), Amman, Jordan.
I live between London, UK, where I was brought up, and Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation. I teach at Goldsmiths, University of London (BA Connected Curriculum), at Swinburne University in Naarm/Melbourne (MA Writing, online) and hold a practice led PhD (Fine Art) through RMIT University, Naarm/Melbourne.
Instagram handle: @cathclover.
Website: https://ciclover.com/.
Catherine Clover has given this talk:
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An Acoustic Commons of the East Atlantic Flyway at Aesth/Ethics: hospitality in art and society ( 2025 )