Prepare to be entranced….
Performed in Oxford, England in July 2010 by Miwa Matreyek.
Matrayek walks behind a screen to become an integral part of the moving landscape of dreams that her magical “Myth and Infrastructure” performance creates.
Using projected video imagery combined with the silhouette of her shadow, music and the magic of imagination, she curls up and becomes the island in a creation myth, surrounded by water and a skyful of stars. Fish and flights of birds, trees and a polar bear… waves wash past and a city rises around her and she walks gently through the sleeping city scape… a totally entrancing performance and a name to remember!
Miwa Matreyek is an animator, designer, and multi-media artist working in Los Angeles. She creates animated short films as well as works that integrate animation and live performance/installation via projection. She gradueated from CalArt’s Experimental Animation program in 2007, and explores the ways in which animation can be taken to new levels by combining it with the body in space, which enables a 3 dimensional immersion in intricate tapestries of illusion. Very well done.