matteo ruggiero sxilence
Performance documentation for My Last Drop of Gasoline.

file 001 / a-v performance / 2025 / around 12m

My Last Drop of Gasoline

Sounded car wreck parts and projection. After the crash the car keeps a voice and narrates its own end, movement turning into stillness.

rule_00: do not explain the prosthetic

rule_01: the pillow is heavier than the chrome

rule_02: every loop returns you to the same body

rrule_03: soft on purpose, broken on purpose

Masked figure holding their head in bright car light.

press file / head held under the headlight

soft head, black fabric, the light landing like a bad thought

machine log recovered:

  1. what happened?
  2. what happened to myself?
  3. what happened to my sweet bodywork...
  4. did i break myself?
  5. have i tested my own limits?
  6. everything is coming back.
Wide abstract dark graphic fragment.
no body here / just pressure under the recovered log
Projection still with car monologue text over car image.

projection still / the car speaking in subtitles

the object remembers badly

Not a clean artist statement. Closer to subtitles pulled out of a broken car.

sxilence press portrait with bright light across the eyes.

sxilence / corrupted release archive / repair diary

sxilence

EPs, edits, remixes and loose SoundCloud files kept like a repair log.

Masked figure reclining across car parts in low light.

short film / gta v / 2024 / 16:59

I Have Become an SUV

A player tries to rewrite the rules of GTA V. The code is a timed fork bomb. Once an NPC, always an NPC, forever SUV.

Masked figure standing between snow-covered cars.

press file / standing between two car bodies

the gap as a stage, snow as broken foam, the body as an attachment

Rogers the bear on a FaceTime call with a corporate anime girl.

short film / avatar / youtube crash / 2024

therapy sessions w/YouTube

Rogers the bear records a racing game, fails to resist the notification, crashes, sings, wakes up, and gets offered a job by a corporate anime girl.

Installation view for A Bird That Mistook a Street Lamp for the Sun.

visual novel / installation / 2025

A Bird That Mistook a Street Lamp for the Sun

A bird follows the wrong light and takes a streetlamp for the sun. A small visual novel where the navigation breaks under too much brightness.

Kdo jsem film still with cat poster and lucky cat.

short film / identity / 2022 / 4:17

Kdo jsem?

A personal short film in damaged 3D, degraded through a CRT screen. I try to break out of the identity I was handed, with one small symbolic interruption.

Blurred abstract car bodywork projection still. Blurred creature graphic fragment. Foggy blue projection still.
Masked figure beside a car in foggy light. Random graphic archive fragment. Masked figure between cars with bright headlights.