Amber McCartney x Shapednoise x MATRIA

Step into MATRIA — a vast, living installation that acts as both sanctuary and threshold. This immersive space sets the stage for a powerful double-bill performance featuring narrm-based dancer and choreographer Amber McCartney alongside Sicilian producer, sound designer, and DJ Shapednoise (aka Nino Pedone).  

McCartney brings her latest, leech 2, a work of uncanny movement that conjures surreal, unsettling physicality through prosthetics, masks and special effects. Bodies become strange and unfamiliar, blurring the boundary between the human and the other, the performer and the fiction.  

Following McCartney’s visual and physical odyssey, Shapednoise bends sonic conventions, blending experimental electronics and meticulous sound design.  

The performance channels raw energy and tactile bass frequencies confronting body and mind. Together, these artists craft an intense sensory journey and an exploration of transformation, pushing the limits of perception to their very edges. 

Presented with Museums Victoria