Commission

Mikhail Karikis

Ain't Got No Fear

Mikhail Karikis, Ain't Got No Fear, 2016 (production still). Image courtesy of the artist.

Mikhail Karikis, Ain't Got No Fear, 2016 (production still). Image courtesy of the artist.

Mikhail Karikis, portrait, 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, portrait, 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, Beatmaking, Sampling & VJing Workshop, 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, Beatmaking, Sampling & VJing Workshop, 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, Beatmaking, Sampling & VJing Workshop, 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, Beatmaking, Sampling & VJing Workshop, 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, Beatmaking, Sampling & VJing Workshop, 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, Beatmaking, Sampling & VJing Workshop, 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, workshop, Grain 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, workshop, Grain 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, Mobile Cinema , 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, Mobile Cinema , 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, Mobile Cinema , 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, Mobile Cinema , 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, Mobile Cinema , 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, Mobile Cinema , 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, Mobile Cinema , 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis, Mobile Cinema , 2015. Photo: Felicity Cranshaw

Mikhail Karikis worked for almost a year with teenage boys from the Isle of Grain – a stark and sparsely populated Kentish marshland dominated by industry, military ruins and rare wetland birds towards. Workshops and events, held around Grain between 2015 and 2016, all contributed towards a film, Ain’t Got No Fear, co-written and filmed with the boys, which premiered in Grain Village Hall before being shown at Whitstable Biennale 2016.

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