Matter Era

A collaboration between Terrapin and Tim Spooner, boldly exploring the possibilities of puppetry and animatronics. Matter Era invites you into a post-human world – an ecosystem imagined entirely without people. Part installation, part performance, it blends experimental puppetry with animated objects and materials to bring a living, unpredictable landscape to life.

A shifting stage begins to breathe as unseen performers animate creatures that explore, flock and interact in strange, captivating ways. Fur-covered beings stir; bone-like structures rise and connect; strings and pulleys lift objects into uncanny forms. Each moment evolves into the next as Madeleine Flynn’s live-mixed soundtrack mirrors the rhythms of this emerging life.

After each performance, the forms rest as an alien sculpture, an otherworldly trace of the transformation.

A vision full of wonder and warning, Matter Era blurs sculpture, puppetry and performance, inviting audiences to witness life reshaping itself and imagine what might emerge when nature reassembles.