Ali Glover – take one / an interview and soundpiece

Listen here to the interview Wouter Huis had with the artist Ali Glover and get an impression of his sound work created for the specific metal plant site in Liège, Belgium.

Ali Glover has been working in the guest studio’s of Greylight Prjoect in Heerlen for three months in the spring of 2024. During this stay he did research and developed a sound piece for the Performing Landscapes festival in Liege (7/09/2024)

Glover has used a phenomenological approach to explore the city and region during his stay, wanting to find out how the environment feels through personal interactions, and to discover what is going on underneath by listening to experiences and anecdotes. In his work, Glover is interested in ideas about urban planning and geopolitics that seep into the everyday subconscious. He looks for places in the environment that have been opened up by works or where work is taking place for modifications or maintenance.

He articulates this information he finds here through the found images, sounds and underlying rhythms that he then uses and edits in his own way. From there, he has begun to explore sounds and actions that associate themselves within the region, of which the notion of marching bands (the harmony) seems to be one. An image that resonates with a proceeding progress transition. He studies the political processes surrounding this and types out the audio recordings, which he then reworks in different versions. In this way, he tries to rearrange and make sense of the order of things.

 

Ali Glover (1993 West Midlands) is a Londen-based artist. He graduated from Chelsea College of Art in 2015 and completed the MFA Fine Art program at Goldsmiths in 2022. Glover’s site-based interventions consider how architectural infrastructures can shift aspects of behavior and psychological patterns. He is interested in how forms of language (architectural, image, or sonic) used in those in-between moments can lead to something from being overlooked to visible. Glover explores notions of haunting within urban environments, this brought him to consider monotonous and cyclical elements of time in his practice and research.

link: www.aliglover.com