A performance-based project founded and directed by Los Angeles-based artists Hannah Sim and Mark Steger, osseus labyrint moves, wiggles and convulses amid eerie, self-made environments. The duo has been exhibiting and performing around the world since 1989. 

osseus labyrint is “a laboratory of random mutations.”  As explorers who frequently wander into the place where science and art intersect, osseus labyrint responds to, feeds off and attempts to illustrate the irrational, mysterious, infinite nature of reality.  Its artistic context is a funnel, pulling in influences from an expansive array of sources ranging from Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins' study of life sciences, to the experimental, psychotropic and humanist narratives of Philip K. Dick and Olaf Stapleton, and to the cinematic essays of Charles and Ray Eames.  Visual sources of inspiration include Hieronymus Bosch, Jan Svankmajer, David Wilson, Andy Goldsworthy, Ernst Haeckel and the Hubble Space Telescope.

During their residency, osseus labyrint created a new piece entitled SWARM, which investigated the comparison between individual and swarm behavior. The peice commented upon shared and divergent traits of swarm behavior and the way in which simple interactions lead to more complex behavior.  Using singular stylized movement, a dense soundscape, and video projections, SWARM illustrated the extremes of coherence and fragmentation, and the protean area in between.