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Mikhail Karikis
Mikhail Karikis is a Greek-born and London-based artist with a background in music, architecture and visual art. His inter-disciplinary practice encompasses composition, performance, drawing and video. Mikhail's recent work explores contemporary auditory culture with a particular focus on voice. His music operates in the fields of electronica, avant-garde and folk, and is dedicated to sonic innovation. It has attracted the attention of contemporary musical explorers Björk and Graham Massey of 808 State, who selected it for commercial release in 2005.
His music features on compilations with artists such as Björk, Patrick Wolf, Scanner, Stephen Vitiello and David Toop on labels One Little Indian Records and Aphasia Recordings. He has appeared in festivals that included Plaid, Alex Smoke, Lemon Jelly, Christian Fennesz and Peter Greenaway. Amongst other spaces, Mikhail's work has been presented at Whitechapel Gallery, BAFTA cinema, British Film Institute, Sir John Soane's Museum and the Photographers' Gallery in London, at Sung Nam University in S. Korea and at Synch Festival in Greece.
Recent projects include the release of his internationally clitically acclaimed solo album Orphica on Sub Rosa/Quatermass label and collaborations with Oreet Ashery, Sonia Boyce, Alamire Consort and Oxford University.
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'.