MATTERLURGY

BIO

Matterlurgy is a collaborative practice between London based artists Helena Hunter and Mark Peter Wright. Their work addresses critical ecologies embroiled in climate crisis, across disciplines and media, often combining the production of artworks with co-constructed events and live performance. As a duo, they have produced projects about flooding, land degradation, air pollution, waste, and climate modelling. Artworks have been made with sites including a hydropower station, disused steelworks, a laboratory for ice simulation, an abandoned copper mine, and galleries and museum collections.

Matterlurgy’s work has been commissioned and exhibited across international venues and partners including: Delfina Foundation, Tate Modern, Raven Row Gallery, Arts Catalyst, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, ICA, The Showroom Gallery, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Gazelli Art House, UK Green Film Festival (UK), Bòlit Contemporary Arts Centre (Spain), Mains d’Œuvres (France), ONOMA (Finland), Dalane Kulturfestival (Norway), HIAP Frontiers of Retreat (Helsinki). Current work includes a cross-disciplinary project about river ecosystems sensitives.stream (Arts Catalyst, UK); ongoing research with the Archipelago Research Institute (Taru Elfving, CCA, Seili/Turku), and a new film in collaboration with scientists at The National Oceanography Centre (John Hansard Gallery & Onassis Stegi).

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Flom Sang is a sound composition created by Matterlurgy in collaboration with pupils from Sokndal School with musical contributions from Sokndal Brass Band and audio recordings of the river Sokna (Norway). The work explores water and flooding; how it is lived with and felt; how it shapes futures and influences imaginations; how it archives stories and highlights broader contexts of environmental change. Presented as a quadraphonic soundwork in the former Jøssingfjord Hydropower Station during Dalane Kulturfestival, the installation included films by Matterlurgy, printed sound art scores and a documentary about the process of making Flom Sang by local filmmaker Magne Østby.

Recorded and edited in Sokndal municipality, Hauge i Dalane, March 2019.

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Thanks to:
Tone Bergliot Eikeland, Maiken Stene, Lene Danielsen, Viktor Vestbøstad Støle, Bess Grastveit, Johannes Sirevåg, Karen Arnø Grastveit, pupils/teachers at Sokndal School, and the Dalane Kulturfestival 2019 team.
Special thanks to Magne Østby, Tore Pedersen and members of Sokndal Musikkorps.
The sound composition was made in collaboration school pupils: Lilly Mydland, Lilly Nathalie Mydland, Noah Hansen Støle, Åsa Thodal, Christell Mydland, Birgitte Rek, Frida Nyheim, May Randi Løgevik, Eyvor Thodal, Sarah Lill Løvås, Soraya Zelmat, Malin Olsen,Elisabeth Mydland, Nathalia Wiktoria Truszkowska, Oline Torkelsen, Malin Moi, Kine Egeli, Elias Ulland, Lina Aase Stenberg, Iver Odden, and the Sokndal Musikkorps led by Tore Pedersen.

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