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

His artistic practice is an experimental mergence of analog film, sculpture, 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

My artistic practice is beginning to set in foundations that have been brewing within micro-cosms of ideas explored in expanded cinema live film performance and sculpture installation.

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.

Curriculum Vitae

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
(MAR) The Battery Of Inquest (16mm Expanded Cinema showcase),
           It Has Me By The Throat And I Am The Fingerprint (16mm Film showing)
Baltic Analog Lab, Riga, Latvia

2023
(MAR) Amygdala Oxytocin (16mm Expanded Cinema Performance),
Topspace, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

(MAR) FILM ~ AS SCULPTURE (16mm Film Sculpture Exhibition),
Work In Process Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2022
(NOV) Analysis Paralysis (16mm Film and Film Sculpture showcase),
Rooftop, Melbourne, Australia

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

2019
Resident Alien (Exhibtion)
Neon Parlour, Melbourne, Australia

ARTIST IN RESIDENT PROGRAM ATTENDANCE

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

2023
(FEB-MARCH) Topspace, Blackmans Bay, Tasmania

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
(JUN) Material Matters 03 (Film Sculpture), Beta STH BNK, Melbourne, Australia
(JUL) Analysis Paralysis (16mm), Artists 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

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’    -   16mm Expanded Cinema

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

2020

(MAY) Whistling Flocks
3’ 28” - 16mm

Jordan James Kaye

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