Love Is The Institution Of Revolution
Mikhail Karikis
01 Jul - 15 Oct 2017
Mikhail Karikis, Little Demons (Mitch & Eddie), photo series, 2017.
Mikhail Karikis, Ain't Got No Fear, 2016, video still.
Mikhail Karikis, Children of Unquiet, 2013-2014, video still.
LOVE IS THE INSTITUTION OF REVOLUTION
Mikhail Karikis
1 July — 15 October 2017
Curators: Miguel Amado, Kevin Muhlen
The exhibition Love is the Institution of Revolution concentrates on two major projects by Mikhail Karikis - Children of Unquiet (2013-2015) and Ain't Got No Fear (2016) - which focus on the voices of the Post-Millennial generation and its visions of its own future in the wake of rapid post-industrialisation in the West and legacies of political, socio-economic and environmental crises inherited by current power-holding generations.
Together, these works compose a wide scope of Karikis's ambitious artistic vision. They reveal ways in which industrial sites are often re-imagined by youths with a form of spatial justice defined by friendship, love and play, the thrill of subverting authority and evading adult surveillance. In turn playful and meditative, spectacular and intimate, operatic and realist, his works resonate with new ways of thinking about the future of territories scarred by industrial obsolescence, and hint at possible, probable or imagined futures conjured up by the poetic imagination of the generation that is most affected by current shifts.
Mikhail Karikis is a Greek-British artist based in London. His work embraces moving image, sound, performance and other media, and emerges from his long-standing investigation of the voice as a sculptural material and a socio-political agent. His projects explore the energies that create collectivist dynamics while resonating people's economic, cultural and psychological circumstances. Karikis often collaborates with communities with whom he orchestrates site-specific performances to camera which highlight alternative modes of human existence, agency and action.
Mikhail Karikis
1 July — 15 October 2017
Curators: Miguel Amado, Kevin Muhlen
The exhibition Love is the Institution of Revolution concentrates on two major projects by Mikhail Karikis - Children of Unquiet (2013-2015) and Ain't Got No Fear (2016) - which focus on the voices of the Post-Millennial generation and its visions of its own future in the wake of rapid post-industrialisation in the West and legacies of political, socio-economic and environmental crises inherited by current power-holding generations.
Together, these works compose a wide scope of Karikis's ambitious artistic vision. They reveal ways in which industrial sites are often re-imagined by youths with a form of spatial justice defined by friendship, love and play, the thrill of subverting authority and evading adult surveillance. In turn playful and meditative, spectacular and intimate, operatic and realist, his works resonate with new ways of thinking about the future of territories scarred by industrial obsolescence, and hint at possible, probable or imagined futures conjured up by the poetic imagination of the generation that is most affected by current shifts.
Mikhail Karikis is a Greek-British artist based in London. His work embraces moving image, sound, performance and other media, and emerges from his long-standing investigation of the voice as a sculptural material and a socio-political agent. His projects explore the energies that create collectivist dynamics while resonating people's economic, cultural and psychological circumstances. Karikis often collaborates with communities with whom he orchestrates site-specific performances to camera which highlight alternative modes of human existence, agency and action.