"Infinitely Yours"

Infinitely Yours

REDCAT Presents

Miwa Matreyek’s

Infinitely Yours

A Dream-like Meditation on Climate Catastrophe

In Its Los Angeles Premiere for Three Nights

January 16–18, 2020

Next Stop: Sundance Film Festival & U.S. Tour

REDCAT presents the Los Angeles premiere of Infinitely Yours by animator, designer and performer Miwa Matreyek for the debut of her latest work. Running for three performances from Thursday, January 16 through Saturday, January 18, 2020, the award-winning interdisciplinary creator brings her nightmarish vision of climate grief to Los Angeles audiences before heading to Park City, Utah for the works’ world premiere during Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier program. Infinitely Yours will then embark on a North American tour throughout June. All music for Infinitely Yours was composed, recorded and performed by Morgan Sorne who will join Matreyek for the REDCAT show as live musical accompaniment. For more information, please visit http://www.semihemisphere.com/#/infinitelyyours.

With a run-time of 25 minutes, the L.A. presentation of Infinitely Yours will be paired with some of Matreyek’s older work, creating an 80-minute program, which will include a 15-minute intermission. Each performance will begin at 8:30 pm. Tickets for Infinitely Yours are $22 or $18 for REDCAT members, and all ages are welcome. The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) is located at 631 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA 90012. For tickets, please call the box office at 213 237-2800 or visit https://www.redcat.org/event/miwa-matreyek-infinitely-yours.  

Infinitely Yours

ABOUT INFINITELY YOURS:

Further pushing her signature technique of layered projections, Infinitely Yours is an emotional, dream-like meditation on climate catastrophe and the Anthropocene – the proposed current era where human influence has effected almost all realms of earth’s natural systems. Matreyek’s shadow traverses macro and micro scales, as her silhouette shape-shifts to experience the world from various perspectives. An earth overflowing with trash. A person drowning in a plastic-filled ocean. A school of fish caught in a trawling net. The work is a viscerally impactful, embodied illustration of news headlines we see every day about climate change and how we’re all inexplicably tied together, the complex harm humanity causes to the world, and what it might mean for all of us to be living in this changing world.

This project is supported by a 2019 Princess Grace Foundation Special Projects Grant.

ARTIST STATEMENT: 

“My work investigates how live performance, in the interdisciplinary space between cinema and theatre, can become a unique, powerful form of emotionally impactful storytelling. I make shows that integrate the shadow silhouette of a live performer (myself) with intricate layers of projected animations that unfold in a dreamlike narrative. My work (both solo and with my theater company, Cloud Eye Control) confronts the tension between humanity and nature, and the ideas of natural and unnatural; does human nature drive us to create an ‘unnatural’ world around us? Have humans become ‘unnatural’ to the planet? My work weaves scientific ideas and environmental themes. I want my projects to push myself and the audience to see and experience the world from different perspectives including ones that are not human, and imagine worlds outside of our daily scope of perceptions. My goal through form and content is to take the audience on an emotional journey that feels like a muscle memory from a dream.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Miwa Matreyek is an animator, designer, and performer based in Los Angeles, touring internationally since 2010. Coming from a background in animation, Matreyek creates live, staged performances where she interacts with her kaleidoscopic animations as a shadow silhouette, in dreamlike visions that make invisible worlds visible, often weaving surreal and poetic narratives of conflict between humanity and nature.

A few past presentations include TED, MOMA, White Light Festival at Lincoln Center, New Frontier Program at Sundance Film Festival, REDCAT, RADAR LA and many more.

Matreyek is also a co-founder and core-collaborator of the multi-media theater company, Cloud Eye Control.

Matreyek is a recipient of the Sherwood Award (2016), Creative Capital Award (2013), Princess Grace Award (2007), and Princess Grace Foundation’s Special Projects award (2009, 2012, 2019). 

LINKS:

• Miwa Matreyek - www.semihemisphere.com

• Infinitely Yours - http://www.semihemisphere.com/#/infinitelyyours

• REDCAT Tickets - https://www.redcat.org/event/miwa-matreyek-infinitely-yours

• Matreyek’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/miwamatreyekartist

• Matreyek’s Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/matreyek

• Matreyek’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/miwamatreyek

• Matreyek’s Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/matreyek  

Michael's Musings

You, Light Up My Life...
Michael Shinafelt

Christmas 2019 is officially over, did you survive? I'm guessing you did since you are reading this. My day was rather low key, lot's of phone calls and texts from friends & family. A delicious steak quesadilla from the Mexican place down the street, and I finally watched Boy Erased with Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe. Yeah, there's that, time to put this Holiday to rest!

It's all fun and games until you start licking on the Lady Fingers

Best Byline via The Daily Beast: "The "CATS" Movie is a Boring Disaster Filled With Joyless Pussies"

That felt like an exotic diaper

Did I mention I got a Michael Myers blanket for my Birthday? Now I have.

Loved the movie Bombshell

Always remember you can't eat the Bluebird of Happiness

Get those trousers off boy, don't be a sissy 😮

Dear Sarah Hukabee, Continuing to be mother of the year teaching your kids to mock someone with a speech impediment. I hope you get diarrhea.

Woman Crush of the Week - Nicole Kidman for wearing this suit to the Bombshell premiere and for her performance in Boy Erased.

Tweet it, just Tweet it!

People actually watch the Hallmark Channel?!

How does Jesus take a bath if he walks on water?

OK Boomer

If you are having a bad day know you probably deserve it

There's no business like my business at:
https://www.instagram.com/michaelshinafelt/?hl=en
https://twitter.com/MShinafelt   

Merry Christmas!

Santa Baby
Marilyn Monroe

Hey Ho, Ho, Ho's Merry Christmas. Santa Daddy is taking some down time today. Thus he leaves you with the amazing Marilyn Monroe crooning her rendition of Santa Baby for your Holiday gift.

That's correct I'm a giver, tis the season.

Have a holly jolly Christmas, now sit on my lap, and listen to Marilyn after the jump!

MM on IMDb -
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000054/  

Hump Day & Chill: The Christmas Eve Edition

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Monday Motivation

Special Delivery
Hugh Jackman

OK, it's almost here, the Big "C" draws nigh...and you know what's on my mind? Indulging in Holiday Cheer while still honoring all the hard work I put into my body and not letting it all go to waste.

So who better to inspire us to that mind set than Hugh Jackman. With a mere two days to go behold, unto you Monday Motivation is bestowed in the form of The Jackman! Because, well, he's jacked.

While I pretty sure my body will never reach the heights of what his has. Mr. Jackman does inspire and motivate nonetheless.

He has a great upper body, which is my problem area. I have obtained bigger arms of late and am regaining some of the ab definition I lost when I was laid up for four months post surgery. Hugh is motivating me to stay focused.

Not to mention he has a package for all of you on this last Monday before Christmas. It's in plain view and what a nice view it is, if you get my drift (I think you do.)

Time to MM minions!

Hugh on IG -
https://www.instagram.com/thehughjackman/?hl=en  

3 More Days...

Muskrat Love?
Kristin Cavalarri & Jay Cutler 

Yep only three more days, if you have to ask until what, then I guess you must be living under a reindeer. Thus I thought we would celebrate today with the too cute for Christmas Couple Kristin Cavalarri & Jay Cutler.

With the Season 3 premiere of Very Cavalarri looming on Thursday, Jan. 9 at 9 p.m. ET, I thought perfect because commerce is part of what Christmas is all about. Don't pretend it isn't minions. 

Now that we got that our of the way, moving on, forward never backward, especially not sideways.

Other than the commercial tie in, this shot of the couple made visions of the video for the song Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses dance in my head. If you aren't familiar that's what YouTube is for.

So now that I have some sort of Holiday feels, I guess I should think about spreading some Holiday Cheer. "Yes" it's time to Ho, Ho, Ho!

Kristin on IG -
https://www.instagram.com/kristincavallari/?hl=en

Just Because...Margot Robbie

Hello Gorgeous
Margot Robbie

Just Because...I don't wanna Christmas, Just Because...Her hot buzz film Bombshell opened this weekend & Just Because...I am one of her fans, that's correct Minions - Heeeeere's Margot Robbie.

Margot was snapped in a snazzy navy blue dress entering the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show in Hollywood. I think she could wear potato sack and make it look good.

Obviously she was promoting Bombshell which just opened this weekend. A film which I intend to take in either today or tomorrow depending on how things go with my schedule.

I have been a fan of Robbie ever since I saw her excellent work as Tonya Harding in I, Tonya. What's that? "Yes" I know she had done other films before that, and while I had heard of her, as well as them. I have never viewed any of her work prior. 

Moving on, I hope you have a Bombshell free day, unless it's at the movies!

Margot on IG -
https://www.instagram.com/margotrobbie/?hl=en