EXPLORERS OF MATERIALITY THROUGH ART AND EMOTION
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Material Matters is an artists’ collective and co-operative based in Liverpool, UK and established in 2018.
Our artist members and founders are Angelo Madonna, John Elcock, Patric Rogers and Silvia Battista.
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Our Manifesto
MATERIAL MATTERS (MM) is an artists’ collective engaged in artistic and curatorial practices that explore the inter-relationship between materiality, aesthetics and performativity under a collaborative praxis we call emotional minimalism. Emotional Minimalism stands for the agency of materiality to elicit human emotions when enacted in devised spaces and under controlled conditions.
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in myth-making processes that are able to transform human perception and invite awareness to the profound entanglement underlying all bodies and forms of materiality.
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with both mythopoeic and mythopoetic processes by playing with the invention of new mythologies and the interpretation of inherited stories.
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aesthetic experiences to explore the art of storytelling by involving materials as the activating forces embedded in language/s that are multiple and often unknown to us: human, non-human and beyond-human.
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with multidisciplinary contemporary aesthetics to bring the intangible into the spectrum of human perception.
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with institutions, artists, communities and educational environments to involve the public into spiritually-enriching experiences that might sometimes be challenging.
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that art should be able to enter into and inform all corners of society, encouraging us to feel more and adapt to our ever-changing world.
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you to explore our projects, to experience the spirits of matter through the power of the poetic!
