co-textual art

Projects in which creating the conditions for encountering art is itself part of the artistic work. Spaces, technologies, collaborations, and ways of listening are composed together to shape the encounter.

  • A costumed figure with multiple outstretched arms, yellow gloves, and hanging neckties stands between wrought-iron gates in a checkered-floor room.

    And Sometimes The Space is Full of a Previous Space

    And Sometimes The Space is Full of a Previous Space (2022) was a series of four evening-long programs I developed during my artist residency at the Deering Estate Theater, supported by…

  • David Dunn and Gustavo Matamoros seated in silhouette inside a cylindrical projection environment filled with horizontal fields of green light.

    i360 XR Theater

    A multi-year residency at the i360 XR Theater has allowed me to explore the world of ambisonic sound, opening the door to the creation of new solo work and in collaboration with other artists. It is a goal of mine to help engage other artists and producers to create and present content in 360° format in the theater.

  • Black-and-gray concentric-circle graphic with white text reading “audiotheque 2.0” and a red band reading “gustavo matamoros.”

    Audiotheque

    Audiotheque ( 1.0 and 2.0 ) was housed inside my resident artist studio at ArtCenter South Florida ( now Oolite Arts ). Since 2012 and through 2018, it provided audiences of up to 50 people with intimate access to some of the most adventurous, unfiltered, high quality experiences of sound-based art and performance available anywhere

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    Listening Gallery

    A public sound-art platform extending approximately 180 feet along the ArtCenter/South Florida façade, Listening Gallery brought changing experiments in sound into the everyday activity of Lincoln Road from 2011 through 2015.

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    Frozen Music

    A sound-art collective formed in 2009 by David Dunn, René Barge and Gustavo Matamoros, Frozen Music uses autonomous sounds, spatialization and extended duration to discover what a site will do.

  • Sewing machines mounted on sculptural wooden resonators in Duane Brant’s interactive installation Sew Organ.

    SOUND
    A Sound Art Exhibition

    A museum exhibition composed across space and time, SOUND brought together multichannel, autonomous and interactive works while addressing the problem of presenting sound art within shared galleries.

  • Interior of Mosquera Orthodontics showing a dental treatment area and the microphone stand used to document Small Sounds in the Workplace.

    Small Sounds in the Workplace

    Six independent sources distribute Small Sounds throughout a working orthodontic clinic, where random audible events mingle with the ordinary sounds of the workplace.

  • Artwork by Ralph Provisero showing a standing figure exhaling a pale cloud toward a small black mechanical form, surrounded by smoke, green shapes and wavering vertical lines.

    Ffffff

    An 8′54″ miniature 5.1 installation created inside Robert Chambers’s Floor Flute, returning recorded breaths to five wind instruments and the bellows through a concealed spatial-audio system.

  • Black-and-white photograph of participants wheeling an upright piano through a busy Lincoln Road crosswalk during Fluxus Day.

    Fluxus Day

    A full day of Fluxus musical adventures, performances and activities in collaboration with Alison Knowles and Larry Miller, consisting of Fluxus On The Beach in South Beach as well as FLuxFAir and FluxEve at the Adrianne Arsht Center

  • The words “WORD (S) OUND” in distressed black typewriter lettering.

    WORD (S) OUND

    Centered on the complete performance of Kenneth Goldsmith and Joan La Barbara’s 73 Poems, Word(s)ound brought sound poetry, radio, text-based performance and conversation together in Miami from December 2–4, 1993.