Constance ARI

Paddy Lyn

Matt Warren

Time is of The Essence (ritual space)

Surround sound installation.
Snare drums x 4, electronic metronomes

2014

I am interested in creating non denominationl rituals, based around installation, performance and sometimes a combination of the two. My main areas of interest are memory, transcendence, liminal spaces and suspension of disbelief. Many of the works I create are installations, environments I consider to almost be spaces for non-specific rituals. These spaces, are in someways experiments in potential transcendence, how they make the participant feel and how the audiences empathises as a viewer. These are not aligned to any specific religion or doctrine. I see them as secular rituals, where someone may have an esoteric, potentially spiritual experience. I conceived of this new experimental installation as a kind of ritual space, playing with the potentially hallucinatory quality of an evolving rhythmic surround sound environment, loosely configured into a ritualistic, symbol-like form.

Bio:

Matt Warren is a Hobart-based electronic media artist, musician, curator, radio presenter and writer. His art practice encompasses immersive electronic installation, single channel video and sound works. The works investigate memory, transcendence, liminal spaces and suspension of disbelief. His music practice has a basis in both composition and improvisation. He is interested in the results of chance combination and random actions, referencing processes and ideas of John Cage, William S. Burroughs, Brian Eno and at times utilises nonsensical or portmanteau texts. Warren considers his practice as part of a greater context currently aligned to neo-psychedelia, digital abstraction and hauntology.

Matt has exhibited, produced sound works and had screenings in Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, USA and throughout Australia. He has held residencies with Jean-Yves Thériault in Montreal, Canada, with Damo Suzuki in Köln, Germany, at Raw Space in Brisbane and multiple residencies at CESTA (Tábor, Czech Republic). He has also recently undertaken an Artist Residency at Burnie High School with his partner Sally Rees.

In 2012 he curated the sound exhibition In A Silent Way for CAST Gallery, Hobart and the video and sound exhibition Ghost Hunters for the Plimsoll Gallery in 2013. He regularly records and performs live with solo project mumble(speak) and in the duo Machines Of Indeterminate Origin. Matt has also performed as part of the Damo Suzuki Network and the Hobart Improv Collective, regularly organises small scale experimental music events as part of the Sound Klub group and presents a fortnightly radio show on Future Music FM.
He has most recently produced sound works, installation and video as part of the Unconscious Collective in the Dark Mofo event Motel Dreaming.