Michael Dudeck
Michael Dudeck WITCHDOCTOR is a trans-disciplinary artist and cultural engineer whose work spans multiple media and forms including performance art, video/film, drawing, sculpture, web-projects, publications, text-work and installation. He has apprenticed with Marina Abramovic, interned at the Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary in New York, and served as the Shaman-In-Residence for Marina Abramovic’s large scale performance retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. He has performed, exhibited, lectured, and screened video works nationally and internationally at major galleries including Pari Nadmi Gallery (Toronto) and John Connelly Presents.
Dudeck’s work was featured in the New Museum’s Younger Than Jesus Artist directory (surveying 500 artists below the ages of 33 (Phaidon Press) and was chosen to exhibit in AA Bronson’s notable exhibition AA Bronson’s School for Young Shamans, at John Connelly Presents in New York. Dudeck’s work involves inventing his own religion and presents aspects of that religion in installations, rituals, performances, video works and publications. The premise of his religion is the birth of dualism: humans separate into all male, all-female, homo-normative tribes and eventually war ensues between both parties and the ultimate result is a series of genders, endlessly reproducing into more and more …
Michael Dudeck WITCHDOCTOR is a trans-disciplinary artist and cultural engineer whose work spans multiple media and forms including performance art, video/film, drawing, sculpture, web-projects, publications, text-work and installation. He has apprenticed with Marina Abramovic, interned at the Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary in New York, and served as the Shaman-In-Residence for Marina Abramovic’s large scale performance retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. He has performed, exhibited, lectured, and screened video works nationally and internationally at major galleries including Pari Nadmi Gallery (Toronto) and John Connelly Presents.
Dudeck’s work was featured in the New Museum’s Younger Than Jesus Artist directory (surveying 500 artists below the ages of 33 (Phaidon Press) and was chosen to exhibit in AA Bronson’s notable exhibition AA Bronson’s School for Young Shamans, at John Connelly Presents in New York. Dudeck’s work involves inventing his own religion and presents aspects of that religion in installations, rituals, performances, video works and publications. The premise of his religion is the birth of dualism: humans separate into all male, all-female, homo-normative tribes and eventually war ensues between both parties and the ultimate result is a series of genders, endlessly reproducing into more and more multiplicity.