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Erica Scourti is an artist/ film-maker working mainly with digital media whose videos have been screened internationally in galleries and festivals.

She has extensive experience of running participatory video projects, workshops and digital
software courses in community and educational settings.

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News 2009

December 6th

My new video Reality Life is online.



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November 13th

INCOUNTER- SOUND VIDEO TEXT

Campbell Works, 27 Belfast Road, London N16 6UN
28th November 2009 - Admission £3 - Doors open 7.30pm - Performances begin 8pm

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InCounter

Sound - Video - Text       

A night of live sonic art, performance and video at Campbell Works. Edgy instrumental improvisation, live electronic mixing, found-sound clashes and spoken word performance are interspersed with videos about language, communication and the construction of narrative within moving image

Live performances:
Anne Bean and Richard Wilson, Melanie Clifford & Melissa Castagnetto, Stephen Corford, Guapo Esmeralda, Holly Pester, Tone Poem

Videos:
Noah Angell, Steven Ball, Ellakajsa Nordstrom, Laure Prouvost, Stefan Riebel, Paul Rooney, Erica Scourti, Lisa Stansbie, Neil Taylor

Wall text:
Emily Candela

InCounter is a project by artists Melanie Clifford, Erica Scourti & Stephen Shiell


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November 12th

My new video Personality Contest is being screened for the first time at Zero de Conduite, Elevator Gallery, AN EVENING OF LIVE ART, FILM SCREENINGS, LIVE MUSIC, DJ'S AND VJ'S.
Friday 13th Novermber, 8pm- late, £3 entrance.

Personality Contest (2009)


LIVE ART

Phillip Hennessey, Jon Purnell ,Grace Morgan and Deniz Una, Susu Laroche & Sydney Southam

LIVE MUSIC


DOPPLEGANG, TEMPERATURES, MEN OF GOOD FORTUNE, THE HOME OFFICE, THE KAPI ROCK ORKESTRA, DOUCE ANGOISSE

FILM SCREENINGS

SIMAO PALMEIRIM COSTA, ERICA SCOURTI, SYDNEY SOUTHAM, PLUS NEW WORK BY VICKY GOLD

 

ELEVATOR GALLERY, QUEENS YARD, WHITE POST LANE, HACKNEY WICK







www.elevatorgallery.co.uk

 

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October 30th

Everybody Understands Me is being shown at Britain is Rubbish, a show curated and by Decima Projects.


Other artists in the show are:

Gavin Turk ,  Mark McGowan, Bob & Roberta Smith, Franko B, Darren Coffield, Gilbert & George, Laura Oldfield Ford, Harry Pye, Ingrid Z, Snoozie Hexagon, Vicki Gold & Alex Fear, Katarina Forss, Simon Reuben White, Stephen Shiell and many others.    




Opening 30th Oct, in Berlin's Kreutzberg.
 

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www.decimagallery.com

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October 7th

Screen Tears is being shown at Scare in the Community which will showcase a selection of art works produced by mental health service users as well as by contemporary artists at CORE Arts in Homerton.


Other artists in the show are:

Richard Battersby, Frank Bangay, George Barber, David Blandy, Ian Bourn, Boyle and Shaw, El Vonne Brown, Enda Burke, Leona Christie, CoolTan, Tessa Garland, Julika Gittner, Chris Grieves, Alex Ingram, IRE-MIND, Stephen Jackson,Terry Jones, Jean-Paul Martinon, Octavia Arts, Jo Panter, Laure Prouvost, Jon Purnell, Natasha Rees, Erica Scourti , Josephine Wood


Curated by Julika Gittner and Jon Purnell

Saturday 24th October @ Core Arts
 

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www.scareinthecommunity.com

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October 5th


Spectrum
(the slideshow incarnation) will be shown as part of the launch of The Pursuit of Happiness Project as part of theThis Is Not A Gateway Festival, 16:00- 18:30, 24th October, Kobi Nazrul Centre, 30 Hanbury Street near Brick Lane.


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Other artists include:

Merve Kaptan, Maria Kjartansdottir, Alicja Rogalska, Justyna Scheuring, Matthew Verdon, Siobhan Wanklyn and Fani Zguro


Download the pdf of the programme HERE

www.thisisnotagateway.net


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September 1st

A selection of my videos are being shown as part of Season 9 of 'Outcasting' which will be broadcast from 1 September – 31 October and will feature work by Ron Diorio, Erica Scourti, Robert Pearre, Anton Hecht and Sam Holden. Curated by Michael Cousin.

outcasting.org

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August 20th


Screen Tears
won the viewer's choice award at TENDERPIX, the experimental film strand of Rushes Soho Shorts Festival 2009.

tenderpixel.com


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August 5th

Statement of the Art has been chosen for Exeter Contemporary Open competition, Thursday 17-Sep-2009 - Wednesday 04-Nov-2009 at the Exeter Phoenix.

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e_scourti_statement_of_the_artStatement of the Art installation view

Other artists in the show are:

Mat Chivers, Martyn Cross, Susannah Douglas, Lloyd Durling, Pat Flynn, Michael Iveson, Angela Lizon, Hayley Lock, Jane Maxwell-Hyslop, Dara McGrath, Suzanne Mooney, Nicola Pomery, Ben Rowe, Erica Scourti, Alison Sharkey, Charlie Tweed.

www.exeterphoenix.org.uk

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August 1st


Hackney WickED is over now, it was great, well done to everyone involved! Here is some documentation of my sound piece, 'Sound Wars', made specially for the festival and shown at both WHIPPIT on Friday night and during our Open Studios at Britannia Works.



Short documentation of 'Sound Wars', installed outside my studio window during Sunday of Hackney Wicked Festival.

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July
23rd


I am helping to curate an event as part of the Hackney WickED Festival called InCounter, along with Stephen SHiell and Melanie Clifford.

InCounter
8pm- 1am Saturday 1st August
@ Counter Cafe, Roach Rd, E3

InCounter is a one-off night of live sonic art, film and video, taking an experimental attitude to audio-visual interaction.The work varies from instrumental improvisation, to live electronic mixing, to found sound clashes and live performance interspersed with a collection of artists’ serial videos.
 

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Live performances by:
Anne Bean & Richard Wilson, Human Separation (Matthew Appleby & Stephen Cornford)Melanie Clifford, Alisdair McGregor & Howard Jacques, Tone Poem, Das verrückte Labyrinth

Videos by:
Steven Ball, Emily Candela, Dave Grifftiths, Philip Newcombe, NSEC, Laure Provost, Erin Roedenbeck
Erica Scourti


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July 20th


A new sound work, Sound Wars, is being shown for the first time at
WHIPPIT:
A NIGHT OF VIDEO. FILM, SCULPTURE, SOUND AND PERFORMANCE
INCLUDING WORK BY: BILL LESLIE, KATY CONNER, SAMUEL DOWD, STEPHEN SHIELL, NATHAN WALKER, MADDY PETHICK, ERICA SCOURTI, STEPHEN CORNFORD, EMMA BENNETT, AND ELOISE HAWSER.

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31st July 6PM-10PM
PERFORMANCES 8.30-9PM
BEHIND THE COUNTER CAFE, WALLIS ROAD. E3
whippit.org


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July 15th


Screen Tears is showing at TENDERPIX, the experimental film strand of Rushes Soho Shorts Festival 2009.
The prem
iere is Saturday 25th July at Tenderpixel gallery, London WC1.

www.sohoshorts.com
tenderpixel.com


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July 1st


Have a look at a new series of videos, Screams, on vimeo:




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April

Statement of the Art
is showing at the Goteborgs Konsthall, Sweden as part of ' Seven Chapers', the graduate exhibition for Valand School of Fine Art; University of Goteborg.
6th May 6pm Goteborgs Konsthall.
www.konsthallen.goteborg.se

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April 5th


Ongoing work in bookshops, go to vimeo
Title Training

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April 1st


Ghost Story is being screened at the MNAC: MUZEUL NATIONAL DE ARTA CONTEMPORANA in Bucharest, Romania, as part of She Devil 3 on tour. From 30th March- 31st May 2009
.www.mnac.ro

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March 13th


Ghost Story is being screened at the Studio Stefania Miscetti in Rome, for SHE DEVIL 3, the 3rd edition of a video review of women artists' film and video. The exhbition opens Thursday 19th march 2009, and is open til Saturday 28th March.

download press release



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