Mikhail Karikis Film Screenings & In Conversation with Cherry Smyth

Voices, Communities, Ecologies

Join artist Mikhail Karikis for a screening featuring some of his short films, followed by an in conversation with writer, poet and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Cherry Smyth. 

For more information on Songs for the Storm to Come, Mikhail’s current solo exhibition in HOME’s main gallery, see here. 

More about the artists

Cherry Smyth is an Irish poet, novelist and art writer, living in London. Famished (Pindrop Press, 2019) a book-length poem, explores the Irish Famine and how imperialism helped cause the largest refugee crisis of the 19th century. If the River is Hidden (Epoque Press, 2022) with Craig Jordan-Baker, is a prose-poetry collaboration based on the ecology of the River Bann, Northern Ireland. Her latest collection One Mountain: Sold (forthcoming, 2025) responds to the threat of a multinational gold mine destroying an area of outstanding beauty in the Sperrin Mountains.

Mikhail Karikis exhibits internationally. In his most recent work for the stage, ‘Universe of Solutions’, he was artistic director for UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network inaugural cultural event for which he collaborated with 150 young people. Solo presentations include Sounds of a RevolutionCalouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, PT (2024); Voices, Communities, EcologiesCukrarna Centre for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, SO (2024); Because We Are Together (2023), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens GR; Ferocious Love, Tate Liverpool (2020); For Many VoicesMiddlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), UK (2019-20); Children of UnquietTATE St Ives, UK (2019-20); I Hear YouDe la Warr Pavilion, UK (2019-20); Mikhail Karikis, MORI Art Museum, Tokyo, JP (2019); No Ordinary ProtestWhitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2018); Ain’t Got No FearTurku Art Museum, FI (2018); The Chalk FactoryAarhus 2017 European Capital of Culture, DK (2017) and Love Is the Institution of RevolutionCasino Luxembourg Forum d’art Contemporain, LU (2017).

Group exhibitions include 54th Venice Biennale, (2011), IT; Manifesta 9, Ghenk, (2012); 19th Biennale of Sydney, (2014); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, IN, (2016); Media City Seoul, KR (2015); British Art Show 8 (2016-7); 2nd Riga International Biennale of Contemporary Art, LV (2020), 2nd Saitama Triennale (2024), JP and others.

Karikis’s creative endeavours include music performances at Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Barbican Theatre, and musical collaborations with Björk, DJ Spooky and the Belgian record label Sub Rosa.

Duration:
120 minutes

This screening has no adverts or trailers and starts at the advertised time

This screening is excluded from the HOME Film Pass

Full price: £7.95 / Concessions: £5.95