Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau
Location: London
Website: www.dekersaint.co.uk Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau is an artist, writer and musician living and working in London.
ashortdescriptionofmypoo.blogspot.com - a one sided dialogue about creativity, philosophy, and shitting.
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arkaanalysis.com - a discussion of dreaming as a mode of cultural production
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twitter.com/dogtanionmusic - a twitter stream of links and thoughts
Exhibitions
Selected Exhibitions
-February 2010. 'Buckminsterfullerene Dream' at Space in Between, London. ARKA: Onerios installation exhibited.
-January 2010. 'Stay Lucky', at The Centre for Recent Drawing, London.
-July 2009. 'Art Sale' at Globe Gallery, Newcastle.
-January 2009. 'Josh', an evening of films and live performance at 'The Griffin' in Shoreditch. Curated by David Green and Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau.
-October 2008. 'Josh', at the 'Grin up North' Comedy Festival, at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield . Three films shown.
-September 2008. 'International Workshop Festival', 'Bad Poetry' performance.
-February 2008. 'Jet Season' at Waygood Little Jewel Cinema. 'Up/scape' screened for two weeks.
-June 2007. ‘It’s Dead; We Killed It.’ at Northumbria University, Newcastle. ‘Beginning, middle, end’ video installation and ‘Conversation piece’ double video installation.
-May 2007. ‘Slow Light.’ at Gallery North, Newcastle. ‘17/2 prime numbers, art and pragmatic objectivity’, conversational lecture with projections.
-November 2006. ‘The Projection Gallery’ at the Liverpool Biennial. ‘God’ and ‘Up/scape’ included in group show.
-October 2006. Performance platform event. 'Platform00000006' at Waygood gallery, Newcastle. 'Mobile Disco' performance.
-July 2006. International festival of new art. 'Deviant(art)' in the Pumphaus gallery in Trollhättan. Performances and videos.
-October 2005. Group performance/video Evening. 'The Fine Line Between Good Art and Bad Life' Gallery North, Newcastle. Videos, performances.
Selected Publications
-January 2009. 'artartart: Art vs History' – 'Hypothetical Sci-Fi stories' published in the magazine.
-December 2008. 'Hit and Miss' magazine - Review and column published in the first issue of the new magazine.
-September 2008. 'Attack!!!' magazine – A short piece of writing in Issue 10 of the critically acclaimed magazine, published by ecartilage.co.uk
-February 2008. 'A Metre Before Impact' - A book of writing by Matthew Giraudeau, and drawings by Ben Jeans Houghton, published by Waygood gallery.
-November 2007. 'The Silence of Things' – An introductory essay for the catalogue of a season of films by the artist, Ben Jeans Houghton.
-2006. ‘Skin Cell’ - an edition of DVD’s produced with the animator Mark Bell, an award winning animation using only a scanner to produce the film and music.
