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Luke Fowler
A Grammar For Listening Part 1, 2009
16mm film, stereo digital sound
Duration 23”
Copyright Luke Fowler and Lee Paterson
Credits: Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow
Luke Fowler
A Grammar For Listening Part 1, 2009
16mm film, stereo digital sound
Duration 23”
Copyright Luke Fowler and Lee Paterson
Credits: Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow
Luke Fowler
A Grammar For Listening Part 1, 2009
16mm film, stereo digital sound
Duration 23”
Copyright Luke Fowler and Lee Paterson
Credits: Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow
Born 1978 in Glasgow where he lives and works.
Video artist and musician Luke Fowler is a central figure of the Glasgow art scene. His filmic collages break with conventional approaches to biography and documentary. Often compared to the work of the British Free Cinema movement, which explored the social realities of 1950s England, Fowler’s films eschew didacticism and narrative continuity in favour of impressionist sound elements and editing effects that offer formal reflections of the logics and aesthetics of the subjects and peoples he is studying.
At Espace Croix-Baragnon he will be presenting the first episode in his trilogy, A Grammar for Listening. Addressing afresh the question of our relation to image and sound, he composes a video in which the image becomes a simple backdrop to the infinitesimal sounds – of fish and marine plants, insects, etc. – captured by microphones that are specially designed to make them audible. By introducing a sense of discrepancy, this score calls into question what we think we see and hear around us.