Micha Eden Erdesz

Born in Toronto, 1975

Canadian-born Intermedia artist

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.

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 un...

BA Philosophy University of Sussex England

BSc Architecture The Bartlett University College London England

PGDip Contemporary Art Practice - Intermedia Edinburgh College of Art Scotland

MRes Arts Practice Chelsea College of Arts England

Diploma in Jungian Theory and Practice Jung Centre Dublin Ireland