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THE EXPERIENCE

Join us for a performance that blurs the lines between animation, film, performance, and theater to explore the history of the Earth and humanity’s impact on it. We’re thrilled to showcase multimedia artist Miwa Matreyek’s work as part of our 2025 Plus Plus Festival. 

In This World Made Itself, Matreyek’s silhouetted figure moves through a stunning animated landscape, tracing the vast history of the Earth: from the cosmic birth of the universe to the rise of humanity. Her live performance transforms scientific and mythic storytelling into a dreamlike cinematic spectacle, creating moments of wonder and introspection.

Infinitely Yours turns its gaze to the present and future, exploring the profound impact of human activity on the planet. Matreyek’s shadow interacts with animated scenes of industry, pollution, and ecological upheaval, offering a haunting and deeply personal meditation on the Anthropocene and our collective responsibility.

These projects are recommended for audience members age 7 & up. 

ON SCREEN: 

Infinitely Yours
Performance by Miwa Matreyek. Runtime: 27 minutes. 

Further pushing her signature technique of layered projections, Miwa Matreyek creates 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. Miwa’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 will be an emotionally impactful, embodied illustration of news headlines we see every day, and the complex harm humanity causes to the world— and what it might mean for all of us; humanity, as well as other life, and the earth itself—to be living in this changing world.

This World Made Itself
Performance by Miwa Matreyek. Runtime: 30 minutes. 

This World Made Itself is a multimedia live performance work combining projected animation and the artist’s own shadow silhouette, as she interacts with the fantastical world of the video, merging film and theater to create a unique kind of spectacle. This World Made Itself is a visually and musically rich journey through the history of the earth, from the universe’s epic beginnings to the complex world of humanity. The piece is at once semi-scientific (like flipping through a children’s encyclopedia), and emotional, surreal, and dream-like.

ON STAGE: Miwa Matreyek

Miwa Matreyek, is an animator, designer, and performer currently based in Vancouver BC. She is an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University in their School for the Contemporary Arts in the Theatre Production and Design area. She has been an internationally touring independent artist since 2010. Coming from a background in animation by way of collage, Matreyek creates live, staged performances where she interacts with her animations as a shadow silhouette, at the intersection of cinematic and theatrical, fantastical and tangible, illusionistic and physical. Her work attempts to make invisible worlds visible while weaving surreal and poetic narratives of creation and destruction, micro and macro worlds, and the tension and conflict between modern humanity and nature.

Her work exists both at the realm of the hand-made and digital. She travels as a one-woman show, often incorporating artist talks and workshops.

Her work has been presented at the Sundance Film Festival as part of the New Frontier section, MoMA, SFMoMA, Lincoln Center, REDCAT, The Walker Art Center, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and many more.