Pedro Matias (Lisbon, 1984 - They/Them, He/His) is an artist, researcher & film-maker based in Amsterdam, exploring immersive environments that play with alternative dynamics of participation, new flows of alternative knowledge, ‘aesthesis’ and performativity. Their work facilitates time based spaces to encounter the stranger matter; the stranger body; the stranger self. Pedro’s work shape-shifts across mediums, as a necessary feature of its form, composition, and politics, operating in liminal spaces of regeneration. They understand spaces (of intimacy) assembled in-between the familiar and the stranger and facilitate fluid and caring supportive structures, as support of agitation and instability, to empower the queer (human and more-than-human) potential for political action and trans*formation. Against fixity and stagnation Pedro searches for performativity in matter and its agency while longing for a utopian intimate soft futurity. For the past years, Pedro has been developing multidimensional landscapes to trigger the embodied impulse to imagine and speculate about other possible futures, towards body and ecological awareness. They facilitate speculative touch as a methodology of being in’ touch’. Furthermore, Pedro is interested in the performativity of haptics to investigate how to prompt embodied affective flows that unsettle one’s bodily ecosystem. Pedro is one of the co-founders of Driewieler Collectief (2010-2020), and currently developing a collaborative artist-run research network - Iridescent Institute of Desire, focused on de/composing the notion of stable structures and (re)imagine collaboration from the perspective of eternal event of ‘desiring’. Pedro Matias holds a MFA from Sandberg Institute (Fine Arts Department) and a MA (Philosophy - Aesthetics) from the New University of Lisbon. They have been a guest teacher at Falmouth School of Art (UK), AKI ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL), Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL) and HzT, Universitat der Kunste Berlin (GER). Pedro’s individual and collaborative practices have been recipients of several dutch funding grants and presented in platforms such as Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, E-WERK (GER), Haus der Elektronischen Künste (HEK - CHE), Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea (PT), Het Hem (NL), Cabaret Voltaire (Manifesta11 - CHE). Furthermore Pedro has presented their moving-image outcomes in Festivals across Europe, Iceland, China and USA.