Mikhail Karikis » All Publications

Vector Journal, British Science Fiction Association

wp_mikhail — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 05:38:16 +0000

An interview with Mikhail Karikis is published in Vector 295 (Spring 2022) alongside Yanis Varoufakis, Nick Mamatas, Polis Loizou and Alexis Panayiotou, contributions by Christos Callow Jr, Dimitra Nikolaidou, Paul Kincaid, Vasso Christou and others. This issue is guest edited by Phoenix Alexander.

Acoustics of Resistance (Essay)

wp_mikhail — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 10:48:37 +0000

“Listening is not a passive experience. It doesn’t just happen to us. Listening is an action. When I listen, I choose to direct my attention to an other. So, when I listen, the ‘I’ becomes a ‘we’. And I don’t only mean listening with my ears, but my entire body receiving, sensing the other. I mean listening as a way of thinking, as an attitude and a way of being.”

In his essay Acoustics of Resistance, Mikhail Karikis tunes-into the sonic activity of socio-political change and reflects on climate change, protest, responsibility, ‘unspeakable hope’ and proposes listening as a form of solidarity, care and activism.

The English and Portuguese version of this text was published in the book Lisboa Soa (2016-2020): Sound Art, Ecology and Auditory Culture, 2021, and can be downloaded here.

Sound Arts Now

wp_mikhail — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 20:48:10 +0000

Sound arts now is a new book by Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle. Published by Uniformbooks the book explores contemporary artistic practices and theories, and what contributes to or hinders artistic and career development. This is conducted through a series of interviews with artists and curators, putting the often-unheard voice of the maker at the centre of the discourse.

There is a conscious shift of reference away from the “white men from the global north” who have dominated the canon during the decades of the discipline’s emergence and establishment. The twenty interviews focus on contemporary and future ideas and practices with artists at early or mid-points in their working lives, whose backgrounds, geographical locations and experiences are as wide-ranging as their approaches and ideas.

Adam Basanta, AM Kanngieser, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Caroline Devine, Elsa M’bala, Evan Ifekoya, Hanna Tuulikki, Hong-Kai Wang, Jau-Lan Guo, Jennifer Walshe, Khaled Kaddal, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lina Lapelyte, Maria Chavez, Mark Peter Wright, Mikel R. Nieto, Mikhail Karikis, Samson Young, Yang Yeung, Yashas Shetty

While not claiming to be a definitive survey, Sound arts now broadens and destabilises what we have come to understand as sound arts, offering new and different pathways, frames of reference, and modes of thinking.

The Guardian News: The Observer on Sunday

wp_mikhail — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 22:55:39 +0000

The Guardian recommends Mikhail Karikis’s solo exhibition at Tate Liverpool “Ferocious Love”. By Laura Cumming, 26/Jul/2020.

TO BHMA Newspaper profiles Mikhail Karikis

wp_mikhail — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 21:40:03 +0000

To BHMA (Culture section), article by Marilena Astrapellou, 16/Aug/2020.

I HEAR YOU: BBC News Feature

wp_mikhail — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 08:58:27 +0000

BBC News features Mikhail Karikis’s project I Hear You and highlights the work of carers of people with complex needs. Doreen Sexton, a carer participating in the art work also discusses her experience being part of the project and the impact it has had on her.

Film London Jarman Award 2019

wp_mikhail — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 22:40:48 +0000

Mikhail Karikis shortlisted for the 2019 Film London Derek Jarman Award.

I Hear You, text by S. Voegelin

wp_mikhail — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 14:06:35 +0000

The premier of Mikhail Karikis’s the audiovisual installation “I Hear You” features a new text on the work by theorist Dr Salomé Voegelin, writer of Sonic Possible Worlds (2014) and The Political Possibility of Sound (2018).

I Hear You (interview & overview)

wp_mikhail — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:10:04 +0000

Kate Adams and Mikhail Karikis are interviewed by curator Rosie Cooper about the making of Karikis’s multi-channel audiovisual installation ‘I Hear You’, created with non-verbal people with complex needs and their carers, premiered at De la Warr Pavilion (UK).