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Mikhail Karikis is a Greek-born and London-based artist with a background in music, architecture and visual art. His inter-disciplinary practice encompasses sound art, composition, performance, drawing and video. Mikhail's recent work explores ideas of difference and dis-articulation with a particular focus on the role of voice in addressing these notions. His sound work is dedicated to sonic innovation and spans from gallery-based work to the fields of experimental vocal, electronica, avant-garde and folk music.
Mikhail's music attracted the attention of contemporary musical explorers Björk and Graham Massey of 808 State, who selected it for commercial release on Björk's Army of Me album (One Little Indian Records, 2005). Other international releases include Mikhail's solo album Orphica (Sub Rosa Records, 2007) which was received with enthusiastic international critical acclaim, as well as numerous compilations including DJ Spooky's Sound Unbound (MIT Press & Sub Rosa, 2008) alongside Aphex Twin, Steve Reich and Sonic Youth; Bend It Like Beckett ( Aphasia Recordings, 2006) alongside Scanner, Stephen Vitiello and David Toop. Mikhail's forthcoming releases include Morphica (Sub Rosa), a triple album of collborations with over 30 international musicians, visual artists and writers.
Mikhail's work has been presented widely in the UK and abroad including at Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, BAFTA cinema, British Film Institute, Sir John Soane's Museum, Model Art & Niland Gallery, Kings Place London and De La Warr Pavilion. He has appeared in festivals that included the Brodsky Quartet, Peter Maxwell Davies, Plaid, Alex Smoke, Lemon Jelly, Christian Fennesz and Peter Greenaway.
Recent collaborators include Sonia Boyce, Zineb Sedira, Cantamus Choir, PRADA, Oxford University, Kings Place, Oreet Ashery, Alamire Consort with members of the Hilliard Ensemble and the Sixteen, the Neo-Futurist Collective, Juice Ensemble, Gabriel Prokofiev, NonClassical, Claudia Molitor, Scratch the Surface Ensemble under the direction of Conal Gleeson, Rozalb de Mura, Uriel Orlow, Emerald Ensemble, Resonance FM and others.
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Mikhail was born in the port city of Thessaloniki in Greece. He moved to London in 1993 where he received his architectural and art training. He studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture (Univerity College London) with avant-gard British architects "Archigram" and the Slade School of Fine Art with theatre director Philip Prowse, art theorist Norman Bryson and artist Lis Rhodes, where he completed his doctorate 'The Acoustics of the Self'.
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