Me and the Machine is a performance and visual art
group initiated by Sam Pearson (UK) and Clara García
Fraile (Spain).
Our works combine groundbreaking uses of everyday audiovisual technology and interactive media with choreographed performance, evocative text and poetic imagery.
Audiences are invited to engage performatively in unique immersive sensorial experiences, being dislocated into hybrid realms, somewhere in between reality and fiction, between you and me, between what we imagine, what you imagine and what you can touch and feel.
Inspired by magical realism, town squares with benches and scientific reports we cannot really understand, these adventurous works develop over extensive research and experimentation.
Our works combine groundbreaking uses of everyday audiovisual technology and interactive media with choreographed performance, evocative text and poetic imagery.
Audiences are invited to engage performatively in unique immersive sensorial experiences, being dislocated into hybrid realms, somewhere in between reality and fiction, between you and me, between what we imagine, what you imagine and what you can touch and feel.
Inspired by magical realism, town squares with benches and scientific reports we cannot really understand, these adventurous works develop over extensive research and experimentation.
Our work obtained The Arches Brick Award 2010 for its
”experimental and risk-taking approach”, a nomination
for the Total Theatre Awards and the ‘First Prize in
Performance’ and 'Outstanding Artist Award’ in the
Young Artists Awards 2009 and 2010 (Premios de Arte Joven) of the
Junta de Castilla y Leon (Spain). It has also
been selected to be part of the British Council
Edinburgh Showcase 2011 and Biennial of Young
Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean.
Clara García Fraile and Sam Pearson met while studying Performance and Visual Art at the University of Brighton, where they graduated in 2008.
Sam is also experienced as a freelance multimedia designer (www.parachutesandpuzzles.com) and Clara has worked as a dancer and performer.
Other current members of Me and the Machine are performer and creative assistant Chloe Ducharne and producer Ruth Dudman.
We are based in Brighton (UK) and Barcelona (Spain).
We are associated artists of The Basement and receive support from Blast Theory and South East Dance (thanks!).
Clara García Fraile and Sam Pearson met while studying Performance and Visual Art at the University of Brighton, where they graduated in 2008.
Sam is also experienced as a freelance multimedia designer (www.parachutesandpuzzles.com) and Clara has worked as a dancer and performer.
Other current members of Me and the Machine are performer and creative assistant Chloe Ducharne and producer Ruth Dudman.
We are based in Brighton (UK) and Barcelona (Spain).
We are associated artists of The Basement and receive support from Blast Theory and South East Dance (thanks!).
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