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

A imaginação maravilhosa de Miwa Matreyek

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Usando animação, projeções de imagens e sua própria sombra em movimento, Miwa Matreyek faz uma bela e meditativa apresentação, sobre descobertas interiores e exteriores. Tire uns 10 minutos de silêncio e mergulhe. Com música de Anna Oxygen, Mirah, Caroline Lufkin e Mileece.
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(Music: "Shells" by Mirah)
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♪ You learned how to be a diver ♪
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♪ Você aprendeu a ser mergulhadora ♪
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♪ Put on a mask and believe ♪
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♪ Ponha uma máscara e acredite ♪
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♪ Gather a dinner of shells for me ♪
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♪ Apanhe um banquete de conchas para mim ♪
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♪ Take the tank down so you can breathe ♪
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♪ Traga o tanque para baixo para que você possa respirar ♪
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♪ Below ♪
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♪ Embaixo ♪
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♪ Movements slow ♪
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♪ Os movimentos ficam lentos ♪
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♪ You are an island ♪
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♪ Você é uma ilha ♪
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♪ All the secrets until then ♪
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♪ Todos os segredos de até então ♪
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♪ Pried open I held them ♪
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♪ Descobertos, eu os segurei ♪
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♪ Until they were still ♪
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♪ Até que ficassem imóveis ♪
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♪ Until they were still ♪
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♪ Até que ficassem imóveis ♪
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♪ Until they were still ♪
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♪ Até que ficassem imóveis ♪
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(Music)
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(Music by Caroline Lufkin)
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♪ Dream time, I will find you ♪
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♪ Tempo de sonhar, eu vou te encontrar ♪
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♪ You are shady, you are new ♪
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♪ Você é sombrio, você é novo ♪
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♪ I'm not so good at mornings ♪
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♪ Não sou tão boa pelas manhãs ♪
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♪ I can see too clearly ♪
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♪ Posso ver claro demais ♪
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♪ I prefer the nighttime ♪
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♪ Eu prefiro a noite ♪
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♪ Dark and blurry ♪
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♪ Escura e desfocada ♪
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♪ Falling night ♪
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♪ Noite que cai ♪
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♪ Hovering light ♪
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♪ Luz que paira no ar ♪
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♪ Calling night ♪
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♪ Noite que chama ♪
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♪ Hovering light ♪
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♪ Luz que paira no ar ♪
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♪ In the moontime I will give up my life ♪
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Na hora da lua, vou desistir da minha vida ♪
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♪ And in the deep dreams ♪
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♪ E em sonhos profundos ♪
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♪ You will find me ♪
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♪ Você vai me encontrar ♪
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[Excerpts from "Myth and Infrastructure"]
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[Trechos de "Mito e Infraestrutura"]
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Bruno Giussani: Come back.
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Bruno Giussani: Volte aqui.
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Miwa Matreyek!
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Miwa Matreyek!
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Translated by Leonardo Silva
Reviewed by Mariangela Andrade

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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