Me and the Machine is Clara García Fraile (Spain) and Sam Pearson (UK).

Through film, performance, text and interactive media, our work suggests imaginary and often bizarre situations in which the audience is invited to step in and play: play a role, play along, play an old forgotten song, play a game, 'play'.  Inspired by magical realism, town squares with benches and scientific reports we cannot really understand, these works become 'live' through the games they trigger off: games between reality and fiction, between you and me, between what we imagine, what you imagine and what you can touch and feel.  

Our installation, screen and performance work harnesses Sam's mixed background on music, illustration and fine art and Clara's on dance and media studies.  We met while studying Performance and Visual Art at the University of Brighton, where we graduated in 2008 with First Class Honours. Since then, our work has been showcased in diverse contexts, such as National Review of Live Art, Brighton Festival, In-Presentable (La Casa Encendida) and several international film, dance, visual and live art platforms.  Our work The Impossibility of Being an Apple was awarded ‘First Prize in Performance’ in the Young Artists Awards 2009, assigned by Junta de Castilla y Leon, where Clara also received the ‘Outstanding Artist’ award.  We currently live and work in Brighton (UK), where we are supported artists of The Basement.

www.meandthemachine.co.uk

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