#mat lindenberg

[jaddatsui]

In 2013, a long-buried and relatively obscure village was uncovered in a remote region of the Mediterranean. Though it initially seemed a simple trading outpost, researchers slowly unearthed increasingly bizarre artifacts and architecture. Extensive work has been done to understand what the use of these items and spaces may have been, the most compelling theory being that the village was once a resort — a spa city, where people travelled from far and wide to perform elaborate rituals and meditations in search of, or in service of, something. We are still trying to figure out what that something is.

Artists Mat Lindenberg and Jadda Tsui have spent the better part of the last year at the site, conducting research through a residency in partnership with the IAOA (International Association of Archaeology), and will be speaking about their trip, relaying their findings, and leading a digitally reconstructed tour of the notoriously secretive and guarded site.

Photo Credit: Mike Tan from Diane and Mike Photography

[jaddatsui]

YOU ARE HERE is a live audio/visual performance, occupying a middle ground between digital puppet show, short film, and multimedia play. Audience members are invited to take their photographs in a booth before the show, their faces then placed like masks onto blank characters. Via modelled figures possessing their likenesses, viewers are introduced into an alternate dimension — quiet, flat, empty, unsettling disassociation constructed from the backdrops of dreams. A live narrative constructs several short stories, loosely paralleling visuals on the screen. The show features a mix of predefined content, improvisation, and opportunities for subversion.

YOU ARE HERE was performed as part of the 2017 Particle + Wave, a media arts festival put on by EMMEDIA at Festival Hall.

All documentation photos courtesy of Aran and EMMEDIA

[jaddatsui]

Song for the End of the World is an installation in the Arts Commons +15 window space by Mat Lindenberg and Jadda Tsui. 

(pics coming soon!)

artist’s statement:

a fleeting feeling that comes from a fall, an accumulation of moments from the passing of time.

almost invisible while you are watching, but happening all the same.