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A graduate in industrial design, Lawrence Malstaf
started his career in theatre. He designed the
settings for choreographers and directors such as
Benoît Lachambre, Meg Stuart and Kirsten Delholm.
Almost immediately he also started to create his
own installations and performances, situated on the
border between visual arts and theatre. In his work
Malstaf displays a strong interest in the phenomena
of movement, coincidence, order and chaos. His
projects often involve the use of advanced technologies. Amongst these are
a series of sensorial rooms for individual visitors (Nemo Observatorium, Mirror,
Pericope/Horizon Machine) and larger mobile environments playing with space
and orientation and using the visitor as a co-actor (Orbit, Nevel, Compass,
Boreas, Transporter). These installations are highly immersive, provoking
a strong physical effect on its visitors. The work of Lawrence Malstaf has been
exhibited internationally. In 2008 he won the Witteveen + Bos - prize for Art +
Technology (NL). In 2009 he received the Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica (A)
and in 2010 the Excellence Prize at The 13th Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo (JP).
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Nevel (2007)
A matrix of nine pivoting walls forms a
labyrinth whose architecture continuously
changes. A sequence of different compositions
creates choreography of spaces flowing into
one another. It is an auto choreographic
space to wander and get lost in, like in a
mutating city, to linger and surrender to the
disorientation. Photo: Dirk Pauwels. Courtesy:
Galerie Fortlaan 17