“I care about cultural phenomena and I care about the lived experience” – MC
Matt Cornell is an Asia-Pacific based choreographer working to ask better questions.
He works through:
music and sound score
and discussion
His career interrogates how we embody systems – social, cultural, political, or technological – and in turn how these systems embody us by forming communities and informing identities. His efforts take multiple forms including dancing, performance, sound composition, writing, podcasting, and curation, in varying contexts including in theatres, galleries, public spaces, and online.
Across these radically different contexts is the core effort of creating spaces, events, and experiences through which we can gather, to share something which might give rise to new ways to know ourselves and each other, an improved narrative, that we may get better at living together.
Matt’s recent projects include “I Learnt My Cultural Dance from YouTube”, the “GIF of Dance” and “The BLOKES Project” as well as recently publishing “Danced Together” and hosting “The Big Bounce”.
He gets excited by the challenge of trying to understand meta-phenomena while avoiding self-deception and hyperbole.
He hopes to necessitate better stories to tell ourselves (by asking better questions).
He believes in the power of non-spoken experience.
He hopes to invoke love.
He has also toured internationally, won awards and been awarded grants, residencies and scholarships eg:
Matt’s current hobby is training to pilot a helicopter.
details at cv.MattCornell.com
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