Mattin

Mattin is an artist, musician, and theorist who works conceptually with noise and improvisation. Through his practice, writing and pedagogy, he explores performative forms of estrangement as a way to deal with structural alienation. Mattin has exhibited and toured worldwide. He has performed in festivals such as Performa (NYC), Shanghai Biennial, No Fun (NYC), Club Transmediale (Berlin), Arika (Glasgow), Sonic Protest (Paris) and lectured and taught in institutions such as Dutch Art Institute, Cal Arts, Bard College, Paris VIII, Princeton University and Goldsmiths College. Mattin is currently teaching at the MFA Fine Arts program, HDK-Valand (Gothenburg). In 2017, he completed a PhD at the University of the Basque Country under the supervision of the philosopher Ray Brassier. Along with Anthony Iles he edited the book Noise & Capitalism (Kritika/Arteleku 2009), which has been translated into Spanish, Greek and Chinese. In 2012, CAC Brétigny and Tuamaturgia published Unconsitituted Praxis, a book collecting his writing, interviews, and performance reviews. Anthony Iles and Mattin are in the final stages of editing the volume Abolishing Capitalist Totality: What is To Be Done Under Real Subsumption?(Archive Books, Berlin). Urbanomic published his book Social Dissonance in 2022, and the Spanish translation was published this year by Dobra Robota (Buenos Aires) and TsonamiEdiciones (Valparaíso). Mattin is part of the bands Billy Bao, Regler and Al Karpenter and has over 100 releases in different labels worldwide. Since 2020, he co-hosts the podcast Social Discipline with Miguel Prado. Prado and Mattin are also part of the Noise Research Union (NRU) with Cécile Malaspine, Sonia de Jager, Martina Raponi and Inigo Wilkins. In 2017, Mattin took part in documenta14 (Athens and Kassel).