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
Is This A Film For You
16mm Screening
Center, Kanuma, Tochigi, Japan
(DEC)
Motion Picture Machine
16mm Screening
Space Cell, Seoul, South Korea
(NOV)
The Battery Of Inquest16mm Expanded Cinema Performance
Baltic Analog Lab, Riga, Latvia
(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 Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
(NOV)

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

2020
Resident AlienPhotographic Exhibtion
Neon Parlour, Melbourne, Australia

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

2024

Center, Kanuma, Tochigi, Japan
(DEC)
Baltic Analog Lab, Riga, Latvia(JANUARY 28-MARCH 30)

2022

Topspace, Blackmans Bay, Tasmania(FEB-MARCH)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

(NOV)
MSDx - Debil Debil Baldwin Spencer (16mm Screening), Melbourne School Of Design, Melbourne, Australia

(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

Jordan James Kaye

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