Lawrence Malstaf is an installation artist that creates theatrical pieces from advanced technologies. His work centers around the relationship between order and chaos. I find his installation pieces surreal since they submerge the audience into strange situations or environments. His theatrical style came from his beginnings in working as a set designer for choreographers and directors. The work that first caught my attention is the Nemo Observatorium.

It places the visitor inside a PVC cylinder and Styrofoam particles are then flown around in a chaotic manner while the viewer sits in the middle of it all in an effort to find peace in the eye of the storm. Thus bringing about the clash or chaos and peace.

My second favorite is called Boreas. Boreas is much like a mechanical garden of tubes. They move very slowly back and forth,then change direction in an organic and unpredictable sort of way.

This mechanical garden adds life and spontaneity to something I never thought would have much of a personality, tubes.

sources:
artists like him;
http://mediartchina.org/

More on Malstaf;
http://mediartchina.org/exhibitions/sensorium-of-the-extraordinary/nemo-conservatorium-be

http://www.fortlaan17.com/artists/lawrence-malstaf/works/2299/?-session=s:328D86AA161f411EE7wWJo1433A6