GREGORY UZELAC
Gregory Uzelac (b. 1990 in New York, NY) is an artist, writer, and academic currently living and working on the lands of the Eora Nation (Sydney, Australia). Uzelac’s work draws inspiration from the cultural hybridization of migration, mass media, and myth. With a career spanning contemporary art, as well as live performance, film, and television, Uzelac’s practice and research focuses on modern folklores and the representation of ideological metanarratives through art and entertainment. His ongoing saga, Song of @Merica, looks to digital-age behaviours and cultures to speak to shared anxieties and experiences in contemporary times.
Uzelac received a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University in 2013, with a degree in Asian Languages and Cultures as well as Radio, Television, and Film focusing primarily on postcolonial theory and ancient and contemporary mythology from the Asian Subcontinent. Uzelac holds a Research Master of Fine Arts from the University of Sydney, where he now lectures and conducts research in the discipline of Studies in Religion.
Uzelac considers myth to be an untapped resource for artistic expression, and encourages society to embrace nonessentialist storytelling and mythmaking as a means to overcome social and political disharmony.
Instagram: @greguzelac
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