Myth and Infrastructure 2/25/2013

By Miwa Matreyek
Monday February 25th
Performances at 7PM, 8PM [Followed by Artist Talk] & 9:15PM
CultureHub
47 Great Jones St / 3rd Floor
Free: Please RSVP Here / Livestream

Come join Miwa Matreyek at CultureHub for an intimate performance of her piece, Myth and Infrastructure.

As the artist walks behind the screen, her shadow becomes an integral part of a fantastical world: She traverses oceanscapes, and cityscapes as she conjures dreamlike scenes with light and shadow.
Run time 17 minutes.

Miwa Matreyek is an internationally recognized animator, designer, and multimedia artist based in Los Angeles. She creates animated short films as well as live works that integrate animation, performance, and video installation. Arriving to animation from a background in collage, her work explores how animation transforms when it is combined with body, both physically in her performance pieces, as well as a composited video element in her shortfilms.

In her projection based performances, animation takes on a more physical and present quality, while body and space take on a more fantastical quality, creating an experience that is both cinematic and theatrical. She is interested in the slippery meeting point of cinema and theater/performance, the moments of convergence where fantastical illusions are created, and the moments of divergence where the two struggles against each other.

Her work has been shown internationally at animation/film festivals, theatre festivals, performance festivals, as well as art galleries, science museums, tech conferences, universities, and more.

Matreyek received her MFA (2007) in Experimental Animation and Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts. She is one of the founding-member and core-collaborator of Cloud Eye Control

Created in 2010 with Special Projects Grant by Princess Grace Foundation, Seed Grant by Under the Radar Festival and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.
Original music by Anna Oxygen, Caroline, and Mileece
Additional music by Mirah

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