In 2016 Maximo joined the art collective United Visual Artists (UVA), founded in 2003 by Matt Clark. Parallel to his career as a solo artist, Maximo has played a pivotal role at UVA in the conceptualisation, design and delivery of selected projects.
ENSEMBLE
London, 2023
The human figure and its movement through time and space is at the heart of UVA’s installations and ‘choreographed environments’. Ensemble brings the figure itself into focus in a three-part study looking at the evolving relationship between bodily movement and our species’ sense of musicality.
Weaving together new research emerging from the fields of biology, neuroscience, anthropology and musicology, Ensemble examines the body/music relationship throughout various stages of human development — from hunting and gathering and the advent of bipedalism, to the cyclical, repetitive movements of the agricultural and industrial revolutions, on to the twitchy micro-gestures that characterise our sedentary lifestyles today.
Choreographed by Dana Gingras
Sound design by Roger Tellier-Craig
Curated by Julia Kaganskiy
Commissioned by 180 Studios
Photos by Jack Hemms
Film by Hot Milk Films
© United Visual Artists
Weaving together new research emerging from the fields of biology, neuroscience, anthropology and musicology, Ensemble examines the body/music relationship throughout various stages of human development — from hunting and gathering and the advent of bipedalism, to the cyclical, repetitive movements of the agricultural and industrial revolutions, on to the twitchy micro-gestures that characterise our sedentary lifestyles today.
Choreographed by Dana Gingras
Sound design by Roger Tellier-Craig
Curated by Julia Kaganskiy
Commissioned by 180 Studios
Photos by Jack Hemms
Film by Hot Milk Films
© United Visual Artists
DRUMSHEDS
London, 2023
An installation work to celebrate the opening of new music venue Drumsheds in London.
Inspired by interconnected frequencies in Nature — from the micro to the macro — this sequence of light, sound and video orbits around the room in an ever-increasing tempo, articulating the venue like a spatial instrument.
Commissioned by Broadwick Live
Sound design by Daniel Junior Thibaut
Film by Hot Milk Films
Photos by James Medcraft
© United Visual Artists
Inspired by interconnected frequencies in Nature — from the micro to the macro — this sequence of light, sound and video orbits around the room in an ever-increasing tempo, articulating the venue like a spatial instrument.
Commissioned by Broadwick Live
Sound design by Daniel Junior Thibaut
Film by Hot Milk Films
Photos by James Medcraft
© United Visual Artists
PRINTWORKS
London, 2021
UVA was commissioned by Broadwick Live, the company behind the iconic Printworks London venue, to create a site-specific installation to mark its reopening in 2021.
After the country’s emergence from lockdown, the series of light interventions by UVA articulates the idea of Printworks as a dormant building reawakening and being reactivated.
The creative approach draws on the striking architecture of the venue as well as from its history as a printing factory, in connection with today’s information streams. The lighting and content articulate a space as a breathing, living organism with a life of its own.
Photos by James Medcraft
Additional creative and production support by Treatment Studio
© United Visual Artists
After the country’s emergence from lockdown, the series of light interventions by UVA articulates the idea of Printworks as a dormant building reawakening and being reactivated.
The creative approach draws on the striking architecture of the venue as well as from its history as a printing factory, in connection with today’s information streams. The lighting and content articulate a space as a breathing, living organism with a life of its own.
Photos by James Medcraft
Additional creative and production support by Treatment Studio
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FRONTERA
Montreal, 2019
Visual concept and scenography for Frontera, a show choreographed by Dana Gingras, with dramaturgy by Ruth Little and live score by Montreal band Fly Pan Am.
The show addresses the aggressive nationalism and corporate mass surveillance of current times, drawing from the idea of physical and psychological borders as instruments of power and control. The scenography creates immaterial and shifting structures that transform the stage and the relationship between dancers, who navigate spaces of inclusion and exclusion.
Frontera premiered at Grand Théâtre de Québec in November 2019 before going on tour to Montreal, Ottawa, Sidney and Berlin.
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