LAB 2026: spiral resonance: a study in the abstract by Matana Roberts

Theater

Cost

$25 single tickets and $35 LAB festival pass here: https://www.redcat.org/industrylab26 

Organizer's Site

www.redcat.org/industrylab26

Council District

City Council District 1

Event Series Dates

Exhibition:

2/18-3/1, 12 PM-6 PM

Performances:

2/24-2/25 & 2/27-2/28, 8 PM

3/1, 3 PM

Matana Roberts
Event Schedule

The Industry celebrates the return of its LAB series, in partnership with REDCAT, featuring new works in opera by renowned artists Guillermo E. Brown, Carmina Escobar, and Matana Roberts.

Multimedia artist Matana Roberts presents an immersive sound and image installation shaped by cyclical forms, mediated space, tonal atmospheres, and layered visual fields. Entitled spiral resonance: a study in the abstract, Roberts reframes the gallery space as a site of subtle recurrence and quiet drift. Roberts will present durational performances amidst the installation, joined by special guests to be announced. 

Matana Roberts is an internationally celebrated composer, performer, band leader, saxophonist, sound experimentalist, and mixed-media practitioner. Working across many contexts and mediums, including improvisation, music composition, visual art, dance, poetry, and theater, Roberts is perhaps best known for their acclaimed Coin Coin project—a multi-chapter work of panoramic sound quilting mixed-media performance work, that aims to expose the mystical roots and intuitive traditions of American creative expression, while maintaining a deep and substantive engagement with narrative, history, community, and political expression within sonic structures. 

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