31st Jan 2011 12:00pm-1:30pm
Sallis Benney Theatre
The Monday Lecture programme (since 1997) consists of presentations by contemporary artists and cultural practitioners who work across disciplines. This is an opportunity to hear artists, writers, cultural activists talk about the history of their practice and show examples of their work. The lecture series is curated by Mine Kaylan for The School of Arts and Media, as part of the Sallis Benney public lecture programme.
Mikhail Karikis is a Greek-born and London-based artist. With studies in music in his native country, art at the Slade School and architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), Karikis’s practice is equally embraced by art galleries and concert halls, and his collaborators range from visual artists to choirs and choreographers. His work in performance art, video and sound focuses particularly on notions of encounters with otherness, often employing the voice as a tool to explore notions of empowerment, disarticulation and difference. Karikis’s art-work is shown internationally including at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Musée des Beaux Arts Nîmes, Institue of Contemporary Art Toronto, Milton Keynes Gallery, Coreana Museum Seoul and elsewhere.
Coinciding with his Doctoral graduation in 2005, Karikis’s vocal work and composition first featured on Icelandic pop-artist Björk’s album Army of Me, which was followed by his critically acclaimed solo album Orphica (2007), a world-wide compilation featuring Karikis alongside Aphex Twin, Steve Reich and Antonin Artaud in DJ Spooky's Sound Unbound (2007), and a second concept album Morphica (2009) released by Belgian record label Sub Rosa. Karikis’s collaborative work includes projects with artists Sonia Boyce, Zineb Sedira, Oreet Ashery, Uriel Orlow, American choreographer Maurice Causey and the Netherland Dance Theatre. In 2010 Karikis performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in Jocelyn Pook’s Ingerland, while his collaborative performance-art opera exploring notions of estrangement, militarisation and human rights, XENON: an exploded opera, toured South England with a finale on the main stage at London’s Kings Place Music Foundation.
His new video work Sounds from Beneath toured 22 cities in the UK with the BBC Big Screen. Forthcoming projects in 2011 include performances at the Barbican Arts Centre, a public sound-sculpture commission in the South Korea and a presentation for a National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2011.
www.mikhailkarikis.com
