Antimatter poster by Kevin Thurston
pieces from the Antimatter box
The ANTIMATTER project involves several performers, writers, and artists who choose tasks from a box created by Royer. It began with the intention of studying three very individual and quite unrelated figures: exotic dancer and rumored spy Mata Hari, child prodigy William James Sidis, and social scientist Stanley
Milgram. The accumulation of material from twelve months of research was transformed into performance scores, scripts,
instructions, trinkets, specters, photos, prints and other various types of assignment. This material was then stored in an orgone treated wooden cabinet. Over forty participants from across the country responded to an open invitation to rummage through the research paraphenalia and choose a piece from the box to activate/guide a piece of their own as a part of a hypermedia event.
The box was first exhibited and performed at CHELA art space in Baltimore, October 4 2003.
The event was an exhibition of exchange presented as a combination of performance, visual art, installations/sculpture,
live music, readings, and all manner of media.
An extensive review of Antimatter was published in Nerve Lantern journal, issue #5 (summer 2004).