CLMRK

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BIO

Colm Clarke is an artist based in Belfast creating actions, sonic scores, sculpture and text. Clarke develops his approach as a tactile strategy focusing on the body and the relationship between the individual and the environment. He is interested in phenomena such as vibration and resonance in considering the mechanisms of entanglement and aesthetics of power.

Colm Clarke received a B.A. honors from the University of Ulster (2006), was a co-director of Catalyst Arts (2006-2008), founding member of ad hoc (2009). He currently sits on the board of Bbeyond and collaborator with A4 sounds and MOOK collectives.


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

2010
Livestock fortify (performance) Market Studios Dublin
Belgrade Triennial mantra (networked performance) Cvijeta Zuzoric Belgrade Serbia
NOTE synapse
(performance) Space Delawab Belfast
Art rebels Oroborous (sculpture) Catalyst Arts Belfast
An hour on a Sunday mantra (performance) PS2 Belfast
Art Karavan
synapse (performance) JNU Delhi, India
Art Karavan synapse (performance) SARAI Delhi, India 
wehaunt monument (performance) Belfast City Airport
BLOP recourse (performance) Arnolfini Bristol
In Pursuit of Amusement (A4sounds) trans-cortex (drawing) 126 Galway 
uvmc (A4sounds) series (drawings) Cellar Santiago, Chile
Podium EAE ** (score) Basement Project Space Cork
Skinned Knees intothether (sculpture) Catalyst Arts, Belfast
EXIST-ENCE mantra (networked performance) Brisbane, Australia

2009
PERFORMANCE PLATFORM recourse (performance) Lublin, Poland
Warm Moving Bodies (audio/video/drawing) Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
CULTURE NIGHT (A4sounds) series (drawings) arus na gael, Galway
ACTION ART terms of (performance) Catalyst Arts, Belfast
IMAF2009 strain (performance) Odzaci, Serbia
ISEA2009 DRMCHN (A/V installation) Waterfront Hall Belfast (PS2-curated by C-13)
Glass Box Opaque (performance)University of Ulster, Belfast
Anymous Festival Purge (performance) Pilsen, Czech Republic
Arsenal Festival Recess (performance) Bialystok, Poland
PM Rubbered (performance) Writers Square, Belfast
A4sounds da’at wan (drawing )Twisted Pepper, Dublin
wehaunt Asiyah (performance) A&E, Belfast City Hospital
PM Molt (performance) Musgrave Park, Belfast

2008

Performance: Irelanda Circuit (performance) Galleria Animal Santiago Chile
I AM Course (sonic performance) Polish Exchange, Stranmillis College, Belfast
INYOUWETRUST Monad (installation, performance) Curfew Tower, Cushendall
La Bas Festival Root (performance) Cable Factory, Helsinki
Members Show Rail (installation), Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Cathedral Arts Quarter Festival (performance) Garfield Street, Belfast
Bog Standard pataphysic ≠ rotation (drawing) Rogues Gallery, Belfast

2007
Members Show Loop (sculpture) G126, Galway,
EX-SITE Goliath (performance)Conway Mill, Belfast
ARES 07 Blind faith (performance) Boating lake, Omagh
Operation Embassadors Custom Square, Belfast
EX-SITE Art’s Birthday (performance) Ormeau Park, Belfast

2006
Exchange Places Trigger (performance) Black Box
Photo-me-members (photo) Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Degree show To satisfy but not enable (intervention/installation), University of Ulster
Queen Street Studios Tender (performance), Belfast

RESIDENCIES

2010  
Art Karavan  Delhi, India 
09/10 QSS Digital Art Studios Residency, Belfast
2008  INYOUWETRUST Curfew Tower, Cushendall
2007  ARES 07 Strule Art Centre, Omagh

AWARDS

2010 Arts Council of Northern Ireland SIAP General Award
2010 British Council Connections Through Culture (India)
2008 Arts Council of Northern Ireland Travel Award (Chile)