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Ghillies
Rowe’s Wildmen costumes, also known as Ghillie suits, are a unique representation of the carnivalesque in contemporary visual culture. They subvert traditional norms and hierarchies by using accumulated domestic materials that are fading from significance to create decorative wearable landmasses. This emphasis on physicality and the body reflects the carnivalesque’s celebration of diversity and complexity.…
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Rope Cycle
‘Rope Cycle’ is series of vignettes produced in collaboration with Anna Braithwaite whilst working as composer-in-residence at Chatham Historic Dockyard. The costume and movement development grew from a body of research and engagement collected around the endless spaces and huge machinery of the Victorian Ropery. The central character in Anna Braithwaite perfomance highlights role sailors…
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Grit in the Oyster
Grit in the Oyster is a body of work by Matt Rowe that represents the often overlooked rituals and aesthetics of carnivalesque culture in the tradi- tional British seaside resort, with a particular focus on the coastal town of Folkestone. For Rowe, this work reflects the town as a cultural space wherethe conventions and boundaries…
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Ghost Tide
The Ghost TideRob La Frenais, 2018 “You never know what the river will bring on the next tide. Nor do you know what secrets it holds, never to be revealed again.” That was the possibly fictional character of ‘Maeve’ of the ‘Redriff Society of Thames Sifters’ as described by Portals of London – a blog which made…
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Passage
https://vimeo.com/157286732 For Cheriton lights 2016 Matt Rowe has created a multi media Installation, that explores the eerie symbolism of friendly societies and overlooked thoroughfare’s of Cheriton.Using holographic projection and experimental photographic techniques, Matt Rowe has merged images and sounds , animating a hinterland at the margins of community. CHERITON LIGHT FESTIVAL 2016Strange Cargo will once again… -
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The uncanny Uncanny
The common modern use of the term uncanny is derived from Sigmund Freud’s 1919 essay ‘Das Unheimliche’, an unusual work for the psychoanalyst as it strays into both aesthetics and literature. However this piece acts as a nexus for many of his key concepts in psychoanalysis; where Oedipus meets ego psychology, and castration ties in with the…
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The Four Winds Café
Four Winds Projection from MattRowe on Vimeo.
