MSHR, flexible organism for creative productions from Portland, USA, emerged as a duo from the 5 person art collective Oregon Painting Society, in 2011. MSHR sounds like mesher. Their name mirrors the modular structure they use to create formats through several medias, under a common estetic universe." We chose an acronym based on 4 words that reflect different aspects of our sensory worlds: "Mushroom Spirit Human Replicator", "Mayan Stoner Hand Recording, “Mirrored Sentient Hydra-Reflection”, “Mental Synthesizing House Renderer”, “Micro-Synthetic Helio-Regeneration”, “Moon Stylus Hovering Realm”, “Meshing Sexual Hypno Room”, “Morphed Style Hyper-Realism”, “Meta Sky Hackers Resting”. MSHR has exhibited and performed at Le Dictateur, Milan; Kunstverein Dusseldorf; Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco; Eyebeam, NYC; Family Business, NYC; Palazzo Peckham, Venice Biennale; Western Front, Vancouver BC.
Time Blade~Liquid Hand is a live work by MSHR, the collaborative project by Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy. It is at the same time a ritualistic performance, an installation and a living sculpture that place the human body into a dynamic relationship with sound and light, generating expanded sensory experiences. Time Blade~Liquid Hand revolves around a unique system of light-audio feedback that employs hand made synthesizers and sculptural interfaces. The duo insert themselves into the system, sitting in the center of the array and steering the feedback patterns by shifting sculptural sensors. MSHR create visions and sounds through bio-electronic technology of their own design: a collage that forward to whatever dreams may come between our torched out organic forms and the cyber over-mind. It is a performance between the borders of reality, primitive magic and science fiction, opening a path for us towards the New World of Square Waves.