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Michael Dudeck Witch Doctor is a trans-disciplinary artist and cultural engineer whose work spans multiple media and forms including performance art, video/film, drawing, sculpture, web-projects, publications, text-work and installation. He is currently apprenticing with notable artist and healer(s) AA Bronson and Marina Abramovic and has recently returned from being an Intern at the Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary in New York and two months as the Shaman-In-Residence for Marina Abramovic’s large scale performance retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. He has performed exhibited lectured and screened video works nationally and internationally including major galleries Pari Nadmi Gallery (Toronto), and John Connelly Presents. Dudeck’s work was featured in the New Museum’s Younger Than Jesus Artist directory (surveying 500 artists below the ages of 33 (Phaidon Press) and was chosen to exhibit in AA Bronson’s notable exhibition AA Bronson’s School for Young Shamans, at John Connelly Presents in New York. Dudeck’s work involves inventing his own religion and presents aspects of that religion in installations, rituals, performances, video works and publications. The premise of his religion is the birth of dualism : humans separate into all male, all-female, homo-normative tribes and eventually war ensues between both parties and the ultimate result is a series of genders, endlessly reproducing into more and more multiplicity. He has created three languages that correspond to various tribes and his next solo exhibition, Amygdala, to be presented at Ace Art in Winnipeg, January, 2011 will present a chronological timeline of the first epochs of this universe. A solo exhibition at Pari Nadimi Gallery in the fall of 2011 will further attempt to document this cosmogony. Dudeck will be undergoing a 6-month artist residency in Jerusalem in early 2011 to study religion further and develop his first publication in the Religion series: The Book of Deer.