Clare Gasson makes narrative sound installations. Her voice is hypnotic. Through the simplest of means, telling a story, she achieves the oneiric doubling effect of having one inhabit two realities simultaneously; neither under one’s control. She employs the language of film with camera angles, suggested shots and lighting, alternative scenarios, as if she were proposing a film to the board at MGM, but at the same time wraps us in her meta-fictional space. Gasson shows the work in installations, or via existing sound systems. ‘Entre Chien et Loup’ (pictured) is a piece shown recently in ‘Elsewhere’, London 2005. The work was set in an old industrial lift – sound emanated from speakers beneath a table which was adorned with pencil drawings. The narrative was a highly described filmic story set in Marseille.

Urban Storyboard, Interior Day: take 2’
2004 5’41
This piece was originally made to be shown in a cinema - using the existing sound system – and black void of the screen. The filmic experience reciprocating sculpture.

‘Storytelling’
2005 1’33
This piece was also originally made to be shown in a cinema - using the existing sound system – though colour planes were used to mirror the rhythm of speech. The screen literally talks to you, albeit in a HAL-9000 computer kind of way…