Alex Knight is in audio conversation with Rhona Eve Clews exploring their experiences of the Icelandic music scene. See also an audio playlist of Icelandic music created by them both to accompany our event Iceland. mobility, spatiality, virtuality. with lancaster University.
Alex Knight:
In 1989 Alex Knight Co-Founded the Fat-Cat record shop going on to establish the record company of the same name. The Brighton-based label boasts an eclectic selection of artists ranging from song writers to contemporary classic composers and techno to Malian Takamba. Early signings included Icelandic acts Sigur Ros and Mum, and in recent years several scottish artists have joined the roster including the Twilight Sad, We Were Promised Jetpack, PAWS. The label's output reaches into many styles including experimental rock, electronica, psychedelic folk and post-punk. He’s a renowned DJ and regular contributor to 1BTN radio.
Rhona Eve Clews:
Whether melting her body into the innards of her home photocopier, filming erupting geyser postcards found on eBay or crawling on her belly to enter macro-pollen perspectives, Rhona works with image, text and performance, poetry, humour, SF and trauma theory to collapse ecological distance. Physically performing her compulsion to meld minds with multiple subjectivities and clamber inside other ‘bodies,’ she draws on her past of growing up a hippie and training as a psychologist and psychic to re-situate photography, writing and fimmaking into expanded, somatic, eco-feminist practices led by feeling, equality, sensuality and mutuality.
She has performed for Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, USA and previous exhibitions include 'VEGETATE'; 'Future Impermanent'; 'Envisioning Other Worlds' and 'New Approaches to Photography'. She has completed residencies in Australia, USA and UK and holds a Bachelors in Psychology, a Postgraduate Diploma in Photography and an MFA in Fine Art (Media) from Slade School of Fine Art. Rhona was Guest editor for the SF and contemporary art issue of 'Vector', the academic journal of the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) and is a recent recipient of Arts Catalyst’ School of Broadcasting (2020-21) exploring the potential of collective broadcast for relationship, dialogue and exchange. She teaches expanded photography and writing and has co- curated exhibitions including 'Women in Photography' (2019) and 'you’re mulchy green, you’re verdant matter' (2019).
To see more about Rhona Eve Clews and her involvement with (Arts) Territory exchange and her long term collaboration with Berglind Hreiðarsdóttir see here ‘Opening to the Other’.