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Crafting Immersive Experiences
Where story becomes sensation.
Transdisciplinary Creative House | Immersive Performance + Embodied Research | Black Diasporic Futurity
Matter + Light is a transdisciplinary creative house building immersive worlds at the intersection of Black diasporic memory, ritual practice, and emerging technologies. We merge creativity and technology to build immersive worlds where story becomes sensation. Rooted in Black diasporic narratives and futurity, our innovative performances and immersive artistic explorations honor lineage, ignite imagination, and illuminate new ways of seeing, feeling, and being.
What We Do
Our Practice
Matter + Light creates experiences that are immersive and multi-sensory by design. Rather than separating audience from performance, we invite participants to enter environments—portals—where movement, sound, light, and architecture create a cohesive world. These worlds are choreographed. They are ritualized. They are built to be felt.
Our work lives across multiple formats:
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immersive performance installations
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site-responsive and participatory rituals
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choreographic research laboratories
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XR/AR and projection-based experiences
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interdisciplinary collaborations with designers, technologists, musicians, and scholars
What We Center
We center Black diasporic narratives and futurity—not as theme, but as method. We explore what it means to carry memory across time, to inherit fragments, to survive rupture, and to imagine futures from within the body. Our aesthetic is informed by diasporic cosmology and Black feminist thought, holding space for complexity: grief and brilliance, rupture and rebirth, mourning and imagination.
Our Purpose
Matter + Light exists to illuminate what has been obscured and to reimagine what is possible. Through embodied research and immersive creation, we aim to:
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honor lineage as a living force
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create portals for collective witnessing and healing
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expand the language of immersive performance
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develop new methodologies for embodied futurist world-building
Matter + Light is where matter becomes illumination—where ritual meets technology, and new worlds emerge.
Mission
To create immersive, transdisciplinary environments that activate embodied knowledge as a vital form of intelligence.
We are committed to:
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Centering the body as archive, interface, and technology
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Advancing non-extractive approaches to AI and emerging technologies
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Honoring Black diasporic memory, cultural lineage, and futurity
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Cultivating participatory experiences that require presence, agency, and engagement
Our mission is to expand how we understand performance— not as something to be consumed, but as something to be entered, inhabited, and co-created.
Vision
We envision a future where:
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Performance is a site of active participation, not passive observation
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Technology operates in relationship with embodied knowledge, not in extraction from it
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The body is recognized as a complex system of intelligence, memory, and innovation
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Artistic spaces function as portals for collective reflection, healing, and transformation
Matter + Light is building toward a new paradigm of creative practice—where immersive environments become sites of encounter across time, geography, and lived experience.
What We Are
Matter + Light is a transdisciplinary creative house working at the intersection of immersive performance, embodied research, and Black diasporic futurity. We merge choreography, ritual practice, sound architecture, and emerging technologies to create immersive worlds—spaces where story becomes sensation and memory becomes material.
Our work is rooted in the understanding that the body is not only a site of movement, but also an archive. It carries personal history, cultural inheritance, ancestral knowledge, and the emotional residue of lived experience. At Matter + Light, we treat this archive as living material—something that can be shaped, activated, and transformed through performance and world-building.
What We Offer
We offer a transdisciplinary ecosystem of performance, research, and immersive world-building.
Immersive Performance Experience
Step into captivating multisensory worlds crafted from Black diasporic memory and ritual. Our performances merge choreography, speculative world-building, and cutting-edge sensory design to offer deeply moving and illuminating artistic journeys. Experience art that resonates with your body and spirit, fostering community engagement and healing through powerful storytelling. We create engaging spectacles designed to foster connection, reflection, and artistic dialogue.
Embodied Practice Session
Engage in guided explorations of movement, embodiment, and ritual rooted in Black diasporic traditions. These sessions offer a unique opportunity to connect with ancestral wisdom through physical practice and sensory awareness. Discover new possibilities for self-expression and intuitive understanding in a supportive, artistic environment.
Embodied Research Lab
Engage in deep exploration of movement, memory, and ritual through our specialized embodied research labs. These sessions offer participants practical methods for connecting with ancestral knowledge and personal embodiment. Discover new dimensions of self-expression and understanding within a supportive, practice-focused environment. The labs are designed to unlock creative potential and foster innovative artistic approaches.
XR/AR Installation Access
Explore interactive artistic worlds blending physical space with augmented and virtual realities. Our installations bring Black diasporic narratives to life through innovative immersive technology and sensory design. Discover speculative futures and hidden layers of memory made tangible through cutting-edge XR experiences.
XR Installation Creation
Collaborate with us to develop and integrate immersive XR/AR installations that tell powerful stories and amplify Black diasporic narratives. We specialize in merging physical spaces with digital realities to create groundbreaking, multisensory experiences. Our installations are designed to be engaging, thought-provoking, and contribute to community dialogue and healing through art. Let us transform your vision into a tangible, future-oriented artistic form.
Events + Offerings
Upcoming workshops, performances, collaborations, and offerings
Sun, Aug 30THE REEF LACome experience “Into the Unknown” at The Reef LA—a captivating sound installation designed to heighten your senses and draw you into the immersive world of ECHO Immersion. Step inside, listen deeply, and experience the work in a whole new way.
Fri, May 08UCLA Nimoy TheaterAD, Brigette has been invited to speak at the AI + Live Arts Summit at UCLA. This is a free event, RSVP required.
March 25-28, 2026Valletta Campus, University of Malta12th Annual School of Performing Arts (SPA) International Conference
Wed, Apr 29ChinaBrigette Dunn-Korpela on behalf of CalArts and Matter+ Light presents at the Dance and Technology Sub-Forum as part of the World Art and Technology Dialogue organized by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
Portfolio
Featuring select works from our time as B. Dunn Movement
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