ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Miwa Matreyek - Multimedia artist
Miwa Matreyek creates performances where real shapes and virtual images trade places, amid layers of animation, video and live bodies.

Why you should listen

Miwa Matreyek's work blurs the line between real and unreal. In live works that integrate animation, performance, and video installation, she explores how animation changes when it is combined with body and space (and vice versa). In her video projects, animation takes on a more physical and present quality, while body and space take on a more fantastical quality.

On one hand, Matreyek's performance can be viewed as a cinematic experience taking place on a screen. On the other hand, what is seen on the screen is a collapsed product of multiple layers of animation, objects and body. Her work exists in a juxtaposition of illusion and nonillusion. Matreyek is also a founding member of the performance media group Cloud Eye Control, which makes theatrical productions with cleverly integrated animation projections.

The piece Matreyek performs at TEDGlobal 2010 is an abridgement of the work "Myth and Infrastructure."

Music credits:

Shadow Hands scene song: Anna Oxygen
Island scene song: "Shells" by Mirah, (a)spera, K records
City scene song: Caroline Lufkin
Magic Hands scene song: Anna Oxygen
additional music by Mileece

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TEDGlobal 2010

Miwa Matreyek: Glorious visions in animation and performance

Wspaniałe wizje Miwy Matreyek

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Z pomocą animacji, projekcji i własnego cienia, Miwa Matreyek wykonuje wspaniały, medytacyjny pokaz o odkrywaniu tego, co wewnątrz i na zewnątrz. Poświęć 10 minut, by się w tym zanurzyć. Muzyka: Oxygen Anna, Mirah, Caroline Lufkin i Mileece.
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(MusicMuzyka: "ShellsMuszle" by MirahMirah)
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♪ You learnednauczyli how to be a divernurek
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♪ Nauczyłaś się nurkować ♪
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♪ Put on a maskmaska and believe ♪
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♪ Załóż maskę i uwierz ♪
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GatherZebrać a dinnerobiad of shellsmuszle for me ♪
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♪ Zbierz dla mnie kolację z muszli ♪
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♪ Take the tankczołg down so you can breatheoddychać
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♪ Zdejmij butlę, by móc oddychać ♪
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BelowPoniżej
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♪ tam na dole ♪
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MovementsRuchy slowpowolny
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♪ Ruchy powolne ♪
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♪ You are an islandwyspa
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♪ Jesteś wyspą ♪
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♪ All the secretstajniki untilaż do then ♪
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♪ Wszystkie tajemnice dotąd ♪
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PriedPodważyłem openotwarty I heldtrzymany them ♪
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♪ wydobywałam i trzymałam ♪
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UntilAż do they were still ♪
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♪ Póki nie zastygły ♪
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UntilAż do they were still ♪
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UntilAż do they were still ♪
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(MusicMuzyka by CarolineCaroline LufkinLufkin)
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(MusicMuzyka by AnnaAnna OxygenTlenu)
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DreamMarzenie time, I will find you ♪
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♪ Snu czasie, znajdę cię ♪
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♪ You are shadyShady, you are newNowy
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♪ Jesteś zacieniony, jesteś nowy ♪
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♪ I'm not so good at morningso poranku
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♪ Nie jestem dobra w poranki ♪
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♪ I can see too clearlywyraźnie
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♪ widzę zbyt wyraźnie ♪
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♪ I preferwoleć the nighttimenocy
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♪ Wolę noce ♪
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DarkCiemne and blurryRozmazany
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♪ Ciemne i nieostre ♪
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FallingObjętych night ♪
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♪ Zapadająca noc ♪
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HoveringUnoszące się lightlekki
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♪ Unosząca światło ♪
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CallingWywołanie night ♪
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♪ Wzywająca noc ♪
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HoveringUnoszące się lightlekki
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♪ Unosząca światło ♪
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♪ In the moontimemoontime I will give up my life ♪
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♪ W świetle księżyca oddam życie ♪
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♪ And in the deepgłęboki dreamsmarzenia
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♪ I w głębokich snach ♪
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♪ You will find me ♪
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[ExcerptsFragmenty from "MythMit and InfrastructureInfrastruktury"]
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BrunoBruno GiussaniGiussani: Come back.
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Bruno Giussani: Wracaj.
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MiwaMiwa MatreyekMatreyek!
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Miwa Matreyek!
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Translated by Lena Gorska
Reviewed by Rysia Wand

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Miwa Matreyek - Multimedia artist
Miwa Matreyek creates performances where real shapes and virtual images trade places, amid layers of animation, video and live bodies.

Why you should listen

Miwa Matreyek's work blurs the line between real and unreal. In live works that integrate animation, performance, and video installation, she explores how animation changes when it is combined with body and space (and vice versa). In her video projects, animation takes on a more physical and present quality, while body and space take on a more fantastical quality.

On one hand, Matreyek's performance can be viewed as a cinematic experience taking place on a screen. On the other hand, what is seen on the screen is a collapsed product of multiple layers of animation, objects and body. Her work exists in a juxtaposition of illusion and nonillusion. Matreyek is also a founding member of the performance media group Cloud Eye Control, which makes theatrical productions with cleverly integrated animation projections.

The piece Matreyek performs at TEDGlobal 2010 is an abridgement of the work "Myth and Infrastructure."

Music credits:

Shadow Hands scene song: Anna Oxygen
Island scene song: "Shells" by Mirah, (a)spera, K records
City scene song: Caroline Lufkin
Magic Hands scene song: Anna Oxygen
additional music by Mileece

More profile about the speaker
Miwa Matreyek | Speaker | TED.com