Lawrence English & Werner Dafeldecker: Fall
Fall was filmed during the decaying moments of summer 2010 on the Antarctic Peninsula at Esperanza Bay.
Still from ‘Fall’
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These recorded moments capture the transition between the two opposing seasons of Antarctic.
Each continent presents particular conditions of seasonality and in the case of Antarctica, these seasonal ruptures are radical and unpredictable; something that continues to become more radicalised in the light of climate change.
The Artists
Lawrence English is an artist, composer and curator based in Australia. Working across an array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work explores the politics of perception and prompts questions of field, perception and memory. English utilises a variety of approaches including visceral live performance and site-specific installation to create work that invites audiences to consider their relationship to listening, place and embodiment. Over the past decade he has worked with sound as a medium for embodied experience and is determined to share his interests in the transformative and sensorial transgressive possibilities of sound. He is a Sidney Myer Creative fellow, was awarded an outstanding doctorial thesis award in conjunction with his PhD in 2017 and has been supported by the Mike Kelley Foundation for his latest installation in Los Angeles, Seirá.
Werner Dafeldecker was born in Vienna in 1964 and studied the double bass which he plays with passion. As a musician, composer and sound artist he takes advantage of the manifold possibilities offered by electro-acoustics. His musical projects are often inspired and deduced by outside influences such as architecture, science, photography and film – partially resulting in the creation of graphical scores for various ensembles and instrumental performers.
Werner also focuses on site specific projects, field recording and opposing natural and environmental sounds with synthetic variants. He has built up an extensive sound archive and created several electroacoustic pieces for radio and film. Around ninety sound-recordings are documenting his artistic framework.
He held lectures and workshops presenting his work i.a. at University Bellas Artes-Madrid, Hochschule für Gestaltung-Karlsruhe, RMIT University-Melbourne and Edith Cowan University-Perth. In 2022, he curated -Reflux- an international Festival for electroacoustic music in Berlin together with Ignaz Schick.