Louis Braddock Clarke

Braddock Clarke has been an active member of the Design Lectorate Research Group for many years, contributing to the diverse research scene at KABK. Braddock Clarke is an artist and researcher interpreting notions from domains of art, geography, physics, and philosophy. Listening and amplification as creative methods have become key approaches to his work relating to disrupted ecologies. Through field work, film-making, sonic tuning, and amateur geology his projects seek to speculate on the future surfaces of the Earth. Braddock Clarke’s relationship with the Geographical Arts is embedded in his formative years in Cornwall, UK where he was surrounded by radon moorlands, granite quoits, shifting isolines, tin mines and trans-Atlantic cable systems. These entangled Earth energies have become paramount to his ongoing research methods relating to technologies and terrains.

Braddock Clarke is part of a long-term collaboration with indigenous communities in Kalaallit Nunaat, paleomagnetic scientists in Europe, and Sonic Acts on a body of work called ‘Out of Focus’. This research makes louder the entanglements and intersections of climate change, mineral extraction, indigenous cosmology, and post-colonialism.

His projects are award-winning, receiving the Waag Technology Award 2019, Dutch Talent Award in 2020, Landscape Research Award 2021, and the Gouden Kalf (Dutch Oscar) in 2022. His artworks and installations have been shown internationally at major galleries and festivals including: Venice Biennale, Rencontres Paris/Berlin, Sonic Acts, Rewire, Sounds of Silence, Netherlands Film Festival, FILE Brazil, Digital Arts Taipei, Macau Design Museum, MU Hybrid Art House, W139, OT301, Quartair, Stroom, Museum of Mines and Metal Brazil, WEST Museum, Noorderlicht, SeeYouSound, Het Hem, and reviewed by magazines such as the WIRE, DAMN, AQNB, La Stampa. He is an associate lecturer at HfG Karlsruhe, Central Saint Martins, and Design Academy Eindhoven.