Clare Ann Matz

Clare Ann Matz (born 1961) is an American multimedia performance artist, musician, film director, painter, journalist and writer, who lives and works in Italy.
Life and career
Clare Matz was born in New York, one of the five children of Mary Jane Phillips-Matz and the poet and literary historian Charles A. Matz Jr. She spent her childhood in Venice and New York and moved to Italy in the early 1980s.
Television and journalism
She hosted the television program Blue Night, an evening magazine which presented interviews of famous artists, designers, dancers, experimental/pop/rock/jazz musicians and film directors and actors, for Video Music Italy and Super Channel London from 1989 to 1995. She presented the international guests at the 1989 Sanremo Festival for RAI 1 International, and later directed the music program "Bande Sonore" for Italia 1 in 2001-2002.
After working as a presenter and journalist on television, she began writing for magazines: Caffè del Teatro (1999-2003), Virus with Francesca Alfano Miglietti (1993-1999), New York City Arts (1997-1998) and also contributed to Re Nudo in the "Starship" section with Franco Bolelli (1996), Cesare Monti's Progetto Ario (1997), and John Cage (book and CD) with Materiali Sonori (1992).
Video and performance art
She began creating video clips with poetry and music in Milan where, with the group Maldoror, she won 1° prize RAI at the Filmmaker Festival with Relax Girl, No voglio uccidere (1982) and then with the group The C.A.M. Art Co. 1° prize Città di Commacchio at the Palazzo dei Diamanti of Ferrara with “Energy” (1984) Italy.
In New York City she worked with the Japanese Butoh dance/theatre group Poppo before moving to Europe, where she collaborated with European modern dance/theatre groups: Teatro della Valdoca (1997-1998) with Ruvido Umano and Canti dall'esilio d'occidente and the theatrical group Krypton with Skyline (1987) with whom she was performance artist at the Festival Kassel Documenta 8. Mixing poetry, video and movement she performed at the Venice Biennale in 1999 with the Progetto Oreste and again in 2006 with the project "Le Città invisibili di Italo Calvino".
Matz has long collaborated with The C.A.M. Art Co. with whom she has worked on the production of The Lonely Ballet of Radio Active Leaks and Energy dedicated to fluxus artist Joe Jones (Asolo Festival 2006). Other projects included
*The Black Sun of Ciguri (2002) inspired by Antonin Artaud's trip to Mexico with the Tarahumara Indians.
*The City of the Sun a representation of Tommaso Campanella's utopia for the Teatru Dramatycznego Bialistok, Poland (1996).
*Visions for the Micha Van Hoecke dance festival in Castiglioncello, Italy.
*Columbus the Moor performed at the Valladolid Theatre Festival, Spain and then again at the Museum of Modern Art of Las Vegas (1992).
In the summer of 2004 she created the video installation Pixel, electronic flow for the exhibition Blossoming Of Innovative Techniques and Extraordinary Media by The Salt Queen Foundation.
Singer, poet, and novelist
As a singer and poet Matz collaborated on several CDs including Alisee for RDC records with Francesco Rampichini (1993), Heaven & Earth magic feature for Mantric Wave productions with Raffaele Serra (1994), Luis Rizzo, suite il barrio for Materiali Sonori (1995), Some Secrets with her own songs for Materiali Sonori (1996), Viventi Inimitabili with Cataldo Meo (1999), Spledidum Vitium with Cataldo Meo (2001). She has also a performed live in concerts in Italy and the US, including the 2010 poetic soundtrack for Marco Nereo Rotelli's installation at the Palazzo Reale in Milan with Danza delle Anime in the show Parole d'Artista.
Matz and Monica Borettini co-edited an Italian rock poetry anthology, Plastic Poetry Party (lulu.com, 2007), and she has written and self-published two novels The Book (2010) and w_h_i_t_e_l_i_n_e_s (2009).

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