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Micha Eden Erdész, b °1975 Toronto, Canada. Contemporary Artist

British. Canadian. Israeli

Canadian-born Intermedia artist living and working nr. Hythe, Colchester GB

Micha Eden Erdész's artistic practice is remarkably diverse. It ranges from artistic research to working in various media such as painting, photography, video and sculpture. The different techniques stand for different ways in which one can deal with a lived reality: through sense, visual comprehension, through intellectual understanding or even supernatural sensation. In the respective works, he creates new spaces of experience for different aspects of reality. He encodes them in a separate language that seems to be detached from references and thus forms its own language, its own mystery. This in turn invites a viewer to decipher it, offering a wonderful escape into the artist’s imagination.

I am an artist with an interest in psychological synchronicity (Carl Gustav Jung) as a function of reality therefore meaningfulness in the world.
The Darkride, vertical rides: fairground vernacular - the ravine. A singular cymbal remains in the same spot on the floor behind the bottom of the stairs; the massive weight of an underfloor safe door remains always open and always empty. This is a fragment of the suburban visions of Toronto of my childhood. The carpeted basement of a Downsview split-level house with a blue door: a redundant home bar, partially stocked by random liquors, and beverages. Adorning the edge of a netherland of actual and imagined places, infected by altered consciousness(es), mutability, and disappearance, I am guided by a desire to traverse interior and exterior worlds, as much as diverse media. Engaging with Intermedia creation for me is a kind of contemporary-medieval anchorite technology. It points to a subaltern layer of knowledge; some which may or may not be culture.

Academia
2024
2024 - currently MA Jung and Post-Jungian Studies, University of Essex
2014-2013 MRes Arts Practice, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London
2013-2012 PgDip Contemporary Art Practice, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
1998-2002 BSc. Architecture, Planning and the Built Environment, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
1998-1995 BA (Hons.) Philosophy, School of Culture and Community Studies, University of Sussex

Further Studies
2024 Jungian and Post-Jungian Clinical Concepts: The Therapy Relationship. Centre of Applied Jungian Studies, SA [short course]
2023 Synchronicity. Centre of Applied Jungian Studies, SA [short course]
2022 Diploma in Jungian Pyschology. Jung Centre, IE [short course]
2022 Expanded Screenwriting as Poem Form. Emma Bolland, Poetry School, GB [short course]
2021 Telematic Art and Performance: The Future in History. Habib William Kherbek, Berlin Arts Institute, DE [short course]
2011 The Flemish Technique: Egg Tempera and Oil Paint. The Princes’ Foundation School of Traditional Arts, GB [short course]

WORKS IN THE COLLECTION OF THE HUNGARIAN EMBASSY LONDON AND NEWLON HOUSING TRUST

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