Collaborations in New York include Japanese Butoh group "Poppo" and in Italy with "Teatro della Valdoca" 1997-1998 and "Kripton" 1988-1989 whith various pièces in European tours, as well as a long collaboration with "Maldoror".
She was performance artist at the  Festival Kassel Documenta 8 with Italian dance/theatre group Kripton and at the Biennale in Venice in 1999 with the Progetto Oreste and again in 2006 with the Retrò project presenting "Le Città invisibili" by Italo Calvino.

With Maldoror multimedia art company-Milan, Italy.

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Photos by Pietro Borsi

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Castello Sforzesco Milan, Italy. 1999.

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Photograph by Pietro Borsi 
Clare reads poetry at the Frontiere 2 Festival in Milan, 1999. 

"Zero Era of Noise"


Very much linked to the current ideology, this old video expresses the void between appearing and being. It is inspired by 
Isidore Ducasse Count of Lautreamont (1846-1870) and Guy Debord (1931-1994).
 A poem created by Cataldo Dino Meo, music by Raffaele Serra, photographs by Pietro Borsi . Voice and Dance by Clare Ann Matz.   In the struggle to appear, have we forgotten the essence of being? The age in which most strive to be recognized and remembered, by Facebook, Myspace or LinkedIn, isn't it curious this  also be the age in which Alzheimer's disease (an illness that progressively deletes memory ) is ever more diffused? 
"I wish to be remembered as..." was once the issue, but now it seems to be "Who will I be remembered by?" Everyone busy (like I myself) to be showcased, to communicate, to "let the world know" but no one is watching...
Why are we living in the past and  for the future and not for the present? 

"Alchemy" 

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Photo by Pietro Borsi at the Visions Festival 1998 
Castello Sforzesco Milan. This performance title "Alchemy"
well summarizes the multimedia language including
videoart, voice, performance with dance and body art. 
​Nel 1998 Franco Bolelli ha organizzato al Castello Sforzesco di Milano una rassegna meravigliosa dal titolo "Frontiere"- Io ho avuto la fortuna di essere invitata ed ho portato una danza rituale con gestualità della tribù Indiana America Cherokee (di cui ho un lontano antenato),body art (di Valentina Reolon) rappresentante i centri di forza nel corpo, proiezioni video frattali e musica del compositore inglese David Ryder. Questo documento video ripreso live è di Antonio Meo.

The Olympians

​The Olympians a dance performance by Clare Ann Matz and Antonio Meo at Immaginazione performance space in Milan in 1986.
​Produzioni Maldoror. Music by Raffaele Serra. Filmed by Paolo Bonazzi.

Poppo and the Go Go Boys

New York 1980's at C.U.A.N.D.O and the Kitchen performance by Buthoh company Poppo and the Go-Go Boys. 

Photographs by Pietro Borsi