Jordan James KayeBio

Jordan James Kaye is a multifaceted visual artist based in Naarm/Melbourne.

His artistic practice is an experimental mergence of analog film, sculpture, poetry, installation and performance. 

His artworks are informed by his poetic response to the human encounter of our world, seeded by a desire to unveil threads to the fabric of his personal experience. 

He realises works that are technically complex, driven by pure compulsion, that vibrate and encourage immersion in deep reflection.

About


I explore and participate in experimental film in it’s essence yet there lays a deep desire to break free of traditional modalities of the audiences participation of my ‘film work’ - the desire seeps to the surface of the foundational backbone of cinema and the beholders experience of it. 
I make films. 
I make film sculptures of my films. 
I make live performance of my films. 
I make sound on films. 
I make sound from films.
I make sculptures as vessels for my films. 
I make films in the most tangible way I know. 
I make films from reverse engineering, for fun. 
I make films to break them to their most material form to remind myself of the tangibility of life. 
I make films to make sculpture to make performance, to ask myself questions and to project that onto an audience. 
I showcase films with the respect that the materiality and structural nodes of analog film deserve and catapult them into the physical reality we exist. 

I deeply ask of myself to escape established constructs to set my films free, selfishly as a priority and un selfishly so they can live freely in a public domain.

Film is...
Film is..
Film is.

a material as such. as ephemeral as a body as undoing as touch. defined real by the psyche. a compounding interest of found data. experience as such. a material is a product. convoluted. indulged. romanticised. by us. owned perhaps or not or so. no more so as a conversation. it flows. no more so as a light. we as a clutch. a lingering. a longing. a forever pedal. to a forever stalk. to the roots. to the deep. and cyclical and back up. light is a thing. some thing. material we cannot grasp. 
light is all that we never knew before. a layer of biological film forms. our eyes be it unborn into born. our lids once full clasp. 

had we gather a pathway? had we managed a thought? had we wedded our psyche? to an unimaginable force? 

a light is a construct. a light is a curse. a light is a blessing. a light be it gifted. a miracle. as spiritual as birth. film is a capturing. a dying. a dead. a construct. an untouchable. a rapturing. a baggage. a release. cyclically the caught.


Curriculum Vitae

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
The Battery Of Inquest16mm Expanded Cinema Performance
(MAR)

 
It Has Me By The Throat And I Am The Fingerprint16mm Film showcase 
Baltic Analog Lab, Riga, Latvia
(MAR)

2023
Amygdala Oxytocin16mm Expanded Cinema Performance
Topspace, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
(FEB)
   
Film ~ As Sculpture16mm Film Sculpture Exhibition
Work In Process Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
(MAR)

2022
 
Analysis Paralysis16mm Film and Film Sculpture showcase 
Rooftop, Melbourne, Australia
(NOV)

2021
    
When The Gloss Comes OffMixed Media Exhibition
Boomtown, Castlemaine, Australia
(AUG)

2020

Resident Alien(Multimedia Exhibtion)
Neon Parlour, Melbourne, Australia



ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 

2024
Baltic Analog Lab, Riga, Latvia(JANUARY 28-MARCH 30) 

2022


Topspace, Blackmans Bay, Tasmania(FEB-MARCH) 




SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

(JUN)
Material Matters 03 (Film Sculpture), Beta STH BNK, Melbourne, Australia

(JUL)
Analysis Paralysis (16mm), Artist Film Workshop, Northern Arts Hotel, Castlemaine, Australia

2023

   
(OCT) 
Craft Contemporary Satellite Exhibition (Film Sculpture), Beta STH BNK, Melbourne, Australia
  
(OCT) 
Material Matters 02 (Film Sculpture), Beta STH BNK, Melbourne, Australia
   
(SEP)
Material Matters 01 (Film Sculpture), Beta STH BNK, Melbourne, Australia
   
(AUG)
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (16mm), Weimar, Germany
  
(JUN)
Zero Pixel Festival (16mm), Topspace, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
    
(MAY) Carte Blanche - 10x Melbourne (16mm), La Lumière Collective, Montreal, Canada
    
(MAY)
Expanded Cinema hosted by Dogmilk (16mm), Miscellania, Melbourne, Australia
   
(MAY)
Pleasure Planet - Hysteria w/ Thick Owens (Live Projection), Miscellania, Melbourne, Australia
    
(FEB)
Embodied Knowing (16mm), ACMI (Australian Centre of Moving Image), Melbourne, Australia
    
(FEB)
Recomposing Decomposition (16mm), Workshop For Potential Cinema, Sydney, Australia
    
(FEB) 
Recomposing Decomposition (16mm), Canberra, Australia

2022
    
(DEC)
Recomposing Decomposition (16mm), Artist Film Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
    
(OCT) Embodied Knowing (16mm), NGBE Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
    
(SEP) Dogmilk Degustations (16mm), Analysis Paralysis, Miscellania, Melbourne, Australia

2021

91 Cycles Bloom, FORTHEART For The Earth, Melbourne, Australia

2020
    
Downstream, Lift-Off Film Festival 2020, New York, New York
Downstream, Lift-Off Film Festival 2020, Tokyo, Japan

2016
    
20th Century Evolution, Exposure and Capture Photography Prizes, Geelong, Australia


FILMOGRAPHY

As the years go by. 
2024

(JAN)    Before During
17’ 50”    -    16mm

(MAR)   It Has Me By The Throat And I Am The Fingerprint
18’ 34”    -    16mm

(MAR)   The Battery Of Inquest
25’ 36”       -    16mm

(SEP)   Film Poem 01
2’ 20”        - 16mm
2023

(FEB)    Embodied Knowing
11’ 26”     -     16mm   

(MAY)    What Resists Persists
10’ 47”    -    16mm

(JUN)    Zero Pixel
25’ 23”     -    
16mm Expanded Cinema      

(JUN)    The Critical Component of The Motors Momento
24’ 42”     -    
16mm Expanded Cinema


(AUG)    ONE SEC
5’ 21”      -     16mm
2022

(FEB)     Haze 
3’ 01”     -     16mm

(MAY)    Thought Reformed
3’ 48”     -     16mm

(JUL)     In An Effort To Redefine Myself I Am Left  Staring Into Unsolvable Air (TWO)
2’ 43”     -     Super 8

(AUG)    Between Two Bodies
7’ 45”     -     16mm

(OCT)    Analysis Paralysis
14’ 45”    -    16mm

(DEC)    Recomposing Decomposition
11’ 14”     -     16mm
2021

(JUN)     In An Effort To Redefine Myself I Am Left  Staring Into Unsolvable Air (ONE)
2’ 34”     -     Super 8                  
(JUL)     Intention
1’ 54”     -     16mm

(AUG)    Involuntarily Resigned
1’ 52”     -     16mm        

(SEP)     91 Cycles Bloom 
1’ 39”     -     Super 8

(OCT)    House Arrest
1’ 11”     -     16mm  

(NOV)    Societies Cement
2’ 31”     -     16mm

2020

(MAY)     Whistling
3’ 28”    -    16mm


It Has Me By The Throat And I Am The Fingerprint
18’ 34” - 16mm
Before During
17’ 50” - 16mm
One Sec
7’ 06” - 16mm
Embodied Knowing
11’ 01” - 16mm
Analysis Paralysis
14’ 45” - 16mm
What Resists Persists

10’ 47” - 16mm
Composing Composition
11’ 14” - 16mm
Whistling

3’ 28” - 16mm
91 Cycles Bloom
1’ 39” - Super 8
In An Effort To Redefine Myself  I Am Left  Staring Into Unsolvable Air - ONE
2’ 34” - Super 8
Intention
1’ 54” - 16mm
Involuntarily Resigned
1’ 39” - Super 8
Societies Cement
1’ 15” - 16mm
Error
2’ 11” - Super 8
House Arrest
1’ 11” - 16mm
Foolhardy
4’ 24” - 16mm
In An Effort To Redefine Myself  I Am Left  Staring Into Unsolvable Air - TWO
3’ 48” - 16mm
Thought Reform
2’ 43” - Super 8
Haze
3’ 01” - 16mm
Release Yourself Deprecate
4’ 55” - 16mm
I Believe In Serendipity
0’ 51” - 16mm
Faceless
2’ 14” - 16mm
Between Two Bodies
6’ 05” - 16mm
We See Abstractly
0’ 40” - 16mm



EXPANDED CINEMA PERFORMANCE

The Critical Component Of The Motors Momento
22’ 38” - 16mm
Zero Pixel
25’ 00” - 16mm
Like ANy GOod Conversation
21’ 00” - 16mm


Return Home


  • Film Light Sculpture
  •    16mm Film, LED lights, steel


12 June 2024
These works highlight the essential components of analog film: its physical substance, the images it captures, the memories it evokes, and the creative labor invested by artists in the image-making process.
Light plays a crucial role throughout the analog image-making process, and these sculptures serve as a sculptural returning home for the film material. They illuminate spaces, evoke memories, and ultimately stand as beautiful objects.




The Battery Of Inquest


  • Expanded Cinema Performance
  •    16mm Film, Film Sculpture, live sound, 5 analog projectors


28 March 2024
This Expanded Cinema work was made on a 2 month solo Artist Residency at Baltic Analog Lab in Riga, Latvia.

The ‘battery’ is the charge in which brings the entirety of this analog symphony together.

The ‘inquest’ is the answers found to questions had not asked.





Unending


  • Film Sculpture
  •    16mm Film, steel, resin


23 August 2023
Unending is a Film Sculpture that encapsulates the life blood and off-cuts from experimental films, ideas, techniques that were produced from 2021-2023. 
The essence of process. A circularity. A returning. A learning. A lesson. Sow. To reep.




When I Look Up All I See Is...


  • Film Sculpture
  •    Mixed Materials, 16mm Film & Projector


06 October 2023
I see, therefore I feel. 
I lay down, therefore I look up.

When I look up all I see is ceiling tiles electrogalvanized cold rolled steel substrate environmental systems expansion joints exposed grid systems bevel edge light emitting diodes access breathe splines vents hook tees.

Opportunities arise from the weight of material matter. Mass is important as a value of worth. Mass is interpretable wherever the mind leads, whatever the mind sees, however it feels.

When I look up I see opportunity. I see an opportunity to move forward. Mass falls on my mind, I am still, moving parallel to the stillness of material. Aliveness is considered, re-interpretation strikes. 
Modular grid systems as still as anything in current form beg to be modulated. Modularity of a system in place exists only to expand thought and act on it.

Material does not exist to be single faceted. It requires perception and materialises in action of interpretation. I strip layers of the material, to look beneath the surface to see farther than the first conception of the idea the material displays to me. When I break it down and remove the layers it speaks to me and a re-birth begins to eventuate through action.

The material used in this artwork would be deemed land-fill had it not inhabited the land mass in my mind. 




The Dust And Its Settling


  • Sculpture
  •     mild steel, acrylic paint


01 October 2023




Material Matters


  • Film Sculpture & Performance
  •     Mild Steel, 16mm Film, 16mm Film Projector


08 September 2023




Two Sec


  • Film Sculpture
  •     Mild Steel, Resin, 16mm Film, Plexi Glass
29 August 2023




One Sec


  • Film Sculpture
  •     Mild Steel, Resin, 16mm Film, Plexi Glass


18 August 2023




The Critical Component Of The Motors Momento


  • Film Sculpture Performance

24 May 2023



Analysis Paralysis


  • Film Sculpture
  •   Resin, 16mm Film, Plexi Glass, Aluminum
13 September 2022