CHRYSALIS

23 – 17 May 2012

Opening Night | 23 May + 27 May 2012 12pm, 12.30pm, 1pm, 1.30pm, 2pm, 4pm, 4.30pm, 5pm, 5.30pm, 6pm

Matthias Schack-Arnott + Buro Architects

Percussionist Matthias Schack-Arnott collaborates with Buro Architects to create a dark and immersive work for one person at a time. Enclosed in a small custom-built space, a visceral sonic world is experienced through shifting walls.

Chrysalis is a reflection on structures which enclose, restrict and envelope, and how they can be both nurturing and torturous. Matthias has developed a new approach to his percussive practice, in which complex webs of sound are formed from elemental materials –  sand, grains, stone and pressurised air –  harnessed in fierce and fragile textural intersections.Chrysalis leads you into a solitary world of confinement, vulnerability and metamorphosis.

Presented as part of the Next Wave Festival