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							Nicodemus honed his performing skills with the mighty and the mad including legendary playright and actor Steven Berkoff (London Theatre Group) Jerzy Growtowski (Polish Laboratory Theatre) Moni Yakim (American Mime Theater) and Raphael Kelly (New York Shakespeare School) and founded the cutting edge Sydney theatre ensemble 'Abba Dabba', a cross-disciplinary team of performance artists, filmmakers and musicians staging original group penned plays in the surreal vein of Beckett and Artaud in an abandoned Church they renovated into an arts workshop and performing space.    Nicodemus made several widely seen short films including the nightmarish 'Terrible Tears', while experimenting with electronic music, painting and photography. He later combined these diverse elements into dynamic solo multi-media  installations, performing throughout Europe and especially Berlin, his spiritual home, where he collaborated with other filmmakers and artists including on Claudia Skoda's epic 'Big Birds' at the Congresshalle.   While performing in several projects in New York (among them Gena Wendkos' acclaimed 'Blue Blood') a fortuitous meeting with talented singer and dancer  Anitra resulted in their creation of 'The Elephant Of Celebes', (after Max Ernst's ground breaking painting, so brilliantly described in Robert Hughes book 'The Shock Of The New') wrapping an electronic soundscape around her opera vocals and his spoken word spiked with powerful visual stimuli, incorporating slides, films and original costume designs.   During a  European and Australian tour,  a line from a Yevteshenko poem and an evolution in their sound, inspired the name change to 'Men Smash Atoms'.   Nicodemus produced (and he and Anitra co-hosted) the cult weekly New York cable TV show 'Krash Boom TV', an alliance of state of the art technology and underground pop culture, exploring the world of futurists, artists, musicians, cyberpunks and computer hackers, or as Saint Jude put it 'The place where science and art overlaps'. More recently he wrote, directed and played the lead in the feature length psuedo-Elizabethan film noir 'Rotten In Denmark', a potent deconstruction of Shakespeare's Hamlet, now in post production.    'Men Smash Atoms' are currently recording songs for an upcoming CD at their own Decoder Digital Annex, to be followed by an extensive U.S. and European tour.   A lifelong interest in psycho-spiritual techniques  that unlock the gates of conciousness has made Nicodemus a passionate metaphysician, a devotee of Mahayana Buddhism, the Qabalah, through the teachings of the Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn and the Thelemic Ancient Ordo Templi Orientis www.nicodemusweb.com NICODEMUS MENU