About

Frankie Kadir Bademci (he/him)
b. E. Hampton, NY.
writer and artist in performance / sculpture / video / installation

Drawing on feelings of disorientation, loss, grief, and familiar memories, Bademci creates improvisational videos in which he explores identity through characters inspired by figures from his past. Overlaid and spliced with found footage, Bademci's low-tech video narratives have a collage-like, campy, confessional aspect that emphasizes banality to absurd excess.

Growing up as a post-internet kid in a family working in public-access TV, Bademci uses the conventions of low-budget TV shows, pushing absurd incongruities without breaking the veneer of seriousness. Playing all characters himself, his kitschy stages present stories of individual lives. Mawkishly bad make-up and a no-nonsense sexuality cover a pathos for often heartbreaking women cycling through serial marriages, grief, and lost illusions.

Currently studying at the State University of New York, Purchase College, Frankie is earning his Master of Arts in Art History with a concentration in Modern and Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practices, as well as his Master of Fine Arts in Performance and Sculpture.

Additionally, Frankie served as the Public Arts Coordinator at the State University of New York, Purchase College.