In The Space In-Between, artist and musician Matt Sims collides concepts as diverse as Quantum Mechanics, temporal consciousness and Taxi Cab drivers. Illuminating both the many universes of existence and the many states of self awareness, The Space In-Between decides to permeate through the laye... Read more
In The Space In-Between, artist and musician Matt Sims collides concepts as diverse as Quantum Mechanics, temporal consciousness and Taxi Cab drivers. Illuminating both the many universes of existence and the many states of self awareness, The Space In-Between decides to permeate through the layers of reality that result in the interaction between these two diverse, yet interconnected worlds.
This multimedia exhibition itself is comprised of a variety of different earthly perspectives, including that of runners, cab drivers, and lucid dreamers amongst others. These perspectives generate an inclusive worldview that illuminate a variety of alternate states of being.
In On Your Mark, Get Ready, Get Set, On Your Mark, for example, Sims evokes the futurist exploration of temporal visualization, blurring and superimposing video of a single sprinting competition over itself. This visualization compress time into indecipherable simultaneity, creating the effect of multiple parallel universes overlapping into coexistence.
Additionally, Seance #1 explores further inward, performatively manipulating random shortwave radio transmissions with effects processors in order to uncover a hidden world out of a mass of electronic information. This sonic world, aided by the limits of perception, dials into the viewer’s subconscious by forcing them to create meaning.
The The Space In-Between, as a whole, is Sim’s attempt to illustrate the constant link between the internal and external states of the universe we try to make sense of on a daily basis. Sims renders the contours of our awareness with a sensibility that is equal parts mundane and esoteric, physical and metaphysical, scientific and otherworldly.
Matt Sims, also known as Mt. Sims, is a Berlin-based established electronic-musician with releases spanning as far back as 2002 with his first album “Ultrasex” on International DJ Gigolo, up to his most recent collaboration with The Knife and Planningtorock on the Darwinian opera “Tomorrow, In A Year.” Having recently retired his Mt. Sims moniker in late 2010, he is currently working on his latest musical project, CEL.
