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ME. My work is grounded in a deep concern for humanity. It draws on post-modern philosophy and the social context connected to identities in a diasporic state of being  - specifically the analysis of the abnormal and the hyper-real and the effects on humanities perceptions. Commenting on structuralism, my installations are part performance, focusing on the practice of making itself as the foundation of the aesthetic. In doing so I reject what I see as the contrived legacy of art practice (tradition) and the decorative by-product.

I have been practicing since the mid 90's and have exhibited extensively, including shows in London (UK), Beijing (China), Rome (Italy) and Australia. Since 2000 at which time I founded Sydney's infamous Space3 Gallery, running until it's untimely closure in 2006. Presently I'm a collaborating with many peers to produce work that involves dialogue concerning the frenzied state of affairs that have encompassed the conservative identity of the contemporary epoch.

Thrills and spills’ 2006

TWENTY FIRST CENTURY FOR ART KIDS (2016)

TWENTY FIRST CENTURY FOR ART KIDS (2016)

Found furniture, electronics with sound, streamers, champagne bottle,

165 x 50 x 100 cm

In the gallery, we see a wardrobe. It omits the bass notes of muffled music and the indecipherable chatter of an enclosed party as if this wardrobe could transport us to some kind of adult Narnia or contains a rave for smurfs.

Yet when the viewer opens this door, the sound and vibrations stop and one is left pouring over the aftermath of a party that might have been. Once the door is closed again, the rumbles of the party recommence.

Adopting live recordings from a party at Space 3, a Sydney Artist Run Space of which Kyriakidis was director 2000 - 2006, the work points to the complex strata of art interactions and networks. Perhaps now more than ever, the aesthetics of the contemporary artist experience is foremost one of being a node in a network. Whilst this work could be construed as a critique of art’s exclusionary circles and rubbernecking, it also perhaps points to the agency that comes with this - no, corporate fat cats and socialites, you can’t come to our squat party, despite your FOMA (Fear of Missing Out) motto adopted by squeamish silicon valley life hacking entrepreneurs.

There is also something quite comforting in the artist’s emulation of a wrung-out dancefloor. The sticky streamers and footprints of walls and floors that have been worked over in cheap spirits and reverb, reminding us of the micro-political act of getting lost in the sound and a sea of bodies.

Projection.

In the last 8 years, I've been working as a projection artist, working alongside and collaborating with artists like Reko Rennie to produce politically motivated decorative work illuminated on Federation square (2016) 'white nights Melbourne'

Below are just a few examples of the scale of the work I have produced.

Chinese new year 2013. Sydney town hall.

vivid 2015. 

enlighten Canberra 2016

MOAD Canberra 2015 

St Marys Cathedral’ Sydney 2014.

white nights 2016 Melbourne

winter Olympics 2010

Melbourne 2014

Melbourne 2015

mock up a screenshot. for Melbourne 2014