Mikhael Antone
mail@mikhaelantone.com

Statement

I use the mediums of video, and photography to explore of the subconscious realities of experience and activate rituals of transformation.
Documentations and montages are edited into a video narrative that integrates a subconscious reality within the confines of daily life as it already exists. This process has developed as a creative ritual for to activate a new transformative space.

In "the Vigil", the idea is to create a sense of watching over death. The use of documentary style footage of the artist's sick mother mixed with dark and foreboding characters allude to the apprehension one feels about mortality and explores how fear can translate into everyday living.

In "To a Man", I focus on middle class young men growing up on Staten Island. It is through interviews juxtaposed by the landscape of industry and nature that I hope to create a landscape for self understanding and the importance of the complexities of the experience of my own generation.

My works focus on universal emotional experiences allowing the viewer to feel in their own way.

Bio

2002 MFA Photography & Video Media, School of Visual Arts
1997 American University Rome: Art history, Painting
1997 BA Salve Regina University: Concentration Art & Philosophy

While at the School of Visual Arts I received the Aaron Siskind Award and was a teachers Assistant for such artists as Grahame Weinbren, Ed Bowes, Clarissa Sligh and Shelley Silver. At the Center for photography, in Mexico City she was a Co-Teacher with Hanna Iverson for a Video Installation workshop.

A founding member of Praxis Artist Collective in Brooklyn and a freelance production Coordinator/ Manager. I have produced such projects as Robot Stories, Frames, Carlito's Way: Rise To Power, Quid Pro Quo, the reality TV series', The Restaurant and Drowned Alive: David Blaine live show for ABC.

I'm currently teaching Phototgraphy and Video at College of Staten Island and recently received the DCA Arts fund Grant for my project "To A Man".