George Tillianakis

Born 1981, Sydney
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons)
Graduation show: 2002, 2003 (Hons)
Graduation ceremony: 2003

Artworks in Space YZ

DISTILLED DISTORTION, 2003
Five part performance video series
55:55

Search & Destroy The Artist
16:13 mins

I Wanna Be Famous
7:07 mins

The End
6:52 mins

Yard
5:41 mins

Lo-Fi Auditions
20:42 mins


DISTILLED DISTORTION is a five part performance video series that depicts me in various suburban domestic settings, obscuring my face with make-up and paint, wearing vintage female garments, playing distorted guitar, singing in Greek and crying hysterically. Each video has its own guise, yet is broken by a spoken stream of consciousness coming from the shame that surrounded my sexuality and ethnicity.

George Tillianakis is a Sydney based multidisciplinary artist, exhibiting primarily as a video performance artist, composer, musician, and curator. George has been active in the arts for 20 years, exhibiting and performing in Australia and internationally.

George has showcased new performance video work with solo shows at Artspace, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Blacktown Arts Centre, 55 Sydenham Rd, and site specific solo performance work in New York City. George has been in many group shows at galleries such as Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Performance Space, Museum of Sydney, First Draft, Kudos Gallery, Alaska Projects, Mop Projects, Campbelltown Arts Centre, and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery.

George has written, produced, and released music through his solo electronic music project Melodiqa, with indie band Chainsaw Melody, and has composed scores for films, documentaries, dance works, and video works for artists Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Liam Benson, Kay Armstrong, Vera Hong and Craig Bender.

George has performed his own music, as well as commissioned dance/performance compositions at the Art Gallery of NSW, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Artspace, Performance Space, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Pact Theatre, Barangaroo, Joan Sutherland Centre, Parramatta Riverside Theatre, Oxford Art Factory, Enmore Theatre, The Metro, and other venues and galleries around Australia.

George’s curatorial projects include Soft Pedal [A Night of Electronic/Experimental Sound Work] at the Blacktown Arts Centre in 2019, Darkest Before Dawn at Ideas Platform Artspace in 2019, Ugly at Ideas Platform Artspace in 2018, and What Works? Practising Artists Living With A Disability, at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2017.

See more from George Tillianakis on Vimeo, Instagram and Tumblr, or visit Spotify to stream Melodiqa and Chainsaw Melody.