Guest artist MIKHAIL KARIKIS joins poet and art critic CHERRY SMYTH to discuss his art practice via 'Human Acts' by Han Kang, 2016 published by Granta Books. Set in 1980 South Korea, the novel tells the gruelling story of a violently suppressed student uprising and the inevitable fallout from the original trauma.

MIKHAIL and CHERRY's discussion encompasses trust, courage, coalminers, eco-activism, protest and pearl-divers. As well as chance encounters, female superheroes, community collaboration, violent suppression, active listening, self censorship, activist imaginary, heteronormative language, acoustics of resistance, Greek working class, repercussions of trauma, our relationship to the earth, sounds to engender change, giving over artistic power, speaking on behalf of the dead, sound as a sculptural material, a tsunami of screaming, plus being out of tune with ourselves, our social context and the environment.

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MIKHAIL KARIKIS

Greek-British artist based in London & Lisbon, working in video, sound and performance.

mikhailkarikis.com

@mikhailkarikis

'Because We Are Together'

National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens 28 Jan - 8 Oct 2023

'The Weather Orchestra' 2023

'Ferocious Love' 2020 Tate Liverpool as recommended by Laura Cumming in 'The Guardian'

'I Hear You' 2019

'No Ordinary Protest' 2018

'The Chalk Factory' 2017 Aarhus Denmark, commissioned by European Capital of Culture

'Sounds from Beneath' 2011-2012

CHERRY SMYTH

'If the River is Hidden' co-authored with Craig Jordan-Baker

'Famished'

ARTISTS + MUSEUMS + PRACTITIONERS

Ceri Hand

HOME Manchester

Mathilda Bevan

Tate Liverpool

The Granary Gallery

Thelma Hubert Gallery

The Showroom

Whitechapel Gallery

BOOKS + AUTHORS + WRITERS

Alison Branagan 'The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers' 2011

Hartmut Rosa 'Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World' 2021