Myth and Infrastructure and Dreaming of Lucid Living

Miwa Matreyek

Los Angeles, California

Both Myth and Infrastructure and Dreaming of Lucid Living are live performances with projected animation. As the artist walks behind the screen, her shadow becomes an integral part of the animated world – she crosses from domestic/home spaces of kitchens and dining room tables to oceanscapes and cityscapes in a fantastical journey.

Myth and Infrastructure:
Original music by Anna Oxygen and Caroline
additional music by Mirah and Mileece

Dreaming of Lucid Living:
Original music by Miwa Matreyek
additional music by Anna Oxygen

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Miwa Matreyek is an internationally recognized animator, designer, and multi-media artist based in Los Angeles. She creates animated short films as well as live works that integrate animation, performance, and video installation. Her work explores how animation transforms when it is combined with body and space (and vice-versa). In her video project-based installations, animation takes on a more physical and present quality, while body and space take on a more fantastical quality. Her work exists in a juxtaposition of illusion and non-illusion.

Matreyek received her MFA in Experimental Animation and Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts. She is one of the founding-member and core-collaborator of the performance media group, Cloud Eye Control, who makes theatrical productions with cleverly integrated animation projections. Her work has been shown in animation/film festivals, theatre festivals, performance festival, as well as art galleries.

Myth and Infrastruture created with support form the Princess Grace Foundation’s Special Projects grant, and Seed Grant provided by Under the Radar Festival, a project of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.