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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 is represented by murmurART, which exists to
promote emerging fine artists of outstanding potential and to engage a wider audience in contemporary art.
Visit www.murmurart.com for more info.

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

April 5th


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


April 5th

Ongoing work in bookshops, go to vimeo
Title Training

ericascourti ericascourti

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

March13th

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

Feb 22nd


Screen Tears is showing at the 3rd edition of Zero De Conduite, at Elevator Gallery, this Friday 27th Feb 2009. Other artists featured are Oriana Fox, Laura Oldfield Ford, Sarah Doyle, Dawn Woolley and Matthew Appleby.


elevator

www.elevatorgallery.co.uk


Feb 18th

New video online- Dear Diary.

dear_diary_erica_scourti

Feb 16th

Everybody Understands Me is being screened as part of Saison Video's 'Different Horizons' programme, which is described as "a British programme examining a range of artistic practices (montage, fiction, performance)", at the Ecole des Beaux Arts Valenciennes, Feb 19th 2009. Other artists featured are Oriana Fox, Roz Mortimer and Dave Green and Alan Bogana.
www.saisonvideo.com

Everybody Understands Me
has also been selected for a group show called 'The Pursuit of Happiness', which will take place in London. For more info about the project visit the website for the exhbition.
Dec 5th New work online, Screen Tears.
Nov 14th New work online, High Street Romantic.
Nov 12th Statement of The Art and Spectrum will be screened at Broken Engilsh and The Missing Piece, a film festival in Gotenborg, Sweden, from Nov 26th- 29th.

website

Oct 16th Statement of The Art has been selected for the volume 3 of the Best of Purescreen artists's moving image, curated by Sophia Crilly for Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.

Oct 15th Statement of The Art is being screened at the Interfilm short film festival in Berlin, between Nov 9- 13th in a programme of the 'Best of Zebra Poetry Film Festival'.
www.interfilm.de

Sept 14th Poetry of the Packaging will be shown as part of One Minute (volume 2), an eclectic range of moving image which includes formats such as 16mm film, Super 8, video, stopframe animation, superimposition, all constrained by a time limit of one minute, curated by Kerry Baldry.Upcoming screenings of One Minute (volume 2) inlcude:

The Marseille Project Gallery
, France, 20th September www.marseille-project-gallery.intrit.com
Big Screen in Hull in Queen Victoria Square until end of October
The Red Gallery, Hull on 17th October www.red-gallery.com/index.html
Roxy/NoD , Prague, Czech Republic on the 21st October
nod.roxy.cz
Artprojxspace 11am-6pm (Mon-Sat)19 November - 20 December www.artprojxspace.com/filmclub.html

August 24th

Spectrum will be screened at Won't Get Fooled Again, an exhbition "Guaranteed to be an overview of the pack of lies which constitutes much contemporary art" curated by Jon Purnell.

. Contributing artists: Antoine Catala, Erica Scourti, Alex Staiger, Beagles and Ramsay, Adam Fearon, Jason Dee, Jonathan Trayner, Calum F. Kerr, Jim Hollands, Cack-U-Like, Simon Reuben White, Karen Russo, Dave Ball, Mark Brogan, Rose Eken.
13 – 21 September, Wed – Sun, 11am – 6pm (Saturdays 12 – 6pm).
SPECIAL LAUNCH EVENT WITH PERFORMANCES: 13 September from 3 – 6pm
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At Cafe Gallery Projects, by the lake, centre of Southwark Park, London SE16 2UA.
www.cafegalleryprojects.com

August 20th

The Speech of Reason and Statement of the Art will be screened as part of the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in Berlin, from 9th- 12th September 2008.
website

August 12th

My video, Ghost Story, will be shown as part of the PureScreen 02 DVD screening curated by Sophia Crilly, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester at Deluge Contemporary Art,
Victoria, BC, Canada, on August 14th. PureScreen 02 DVD is curated by Sophia Crilly and showcases recent artist film and video from the UK.
www.deluge.ws

August 5th

My new video, High Street Romantic, will be shown at 'The Tomorrow People', the Elevator Gallery's new exhibition, opening this Friday as part fo the Hackney WickED festival taking place over the 8th, 9th and 10th August 2008.


Mother Studios, Queens Yard, White Post Lane, 3 min walk from Hackney Wick station.


July 14th

Feels Like The First Time (2008) is being screened at Zero de Conduite at Elevator Gallery
, this Friday 18th July. Other artists include Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Matt Lippiatt, Dwight Clarke, Laura Wilson, Simon Ould, Decima Dogs and more.

Mother Studios, Queens Yard, White Post Lane, 3 min walk from Hackney Wick station.




June 18th

Some of my work will be in the Decima Artists' Show, at Decima Gallery in Hackney Wick, Saturday 21st June, from 4- 8pm.
Other artists include Angelica Fernando, Anna-Livia Lowendahl-Atomic, Aaron Barschak, Brian Morrissey, Byron Pritchard, Erica Scourti, Geraldine Ryan, Ian Wright, Larry
McGinity, Louise Camrass, Mark McGowan, Paloma Faith, Piers Wardle, The
Pound Puppies, Rart & Sete, Simon Ould, Stephen Micalef, The Little Artists

www.decimagallery.com


The Speech of Reason
is being screened at Recontres Internationales Berlin 2008, at the House of World Cultures, July 4th, 4pm.
website


June 5th

Everybody Understands Me
will be screened this summer at the Warsaw Street Festival, June 27th-July 2nd 2008
, Poland.

June 3rd

The Speech of Reason
(2006) is being screened at PureScreen #21 - Follywood
25 June 2008 (18:30 - 20:00)
Artists: Rachel Cattle, Mia Chen, Gordon Culshaw, Nooshin Farhid, Tessa Garland, Elena Näsänen, Philip Newcombe, Christine Niehoff, Seppo Renvall, Pekka Sassi, Erica Scourti. Curated by Sophia Crilly.
Venue: Bureau, Ground Floor, Islington Mill, James Street, Salford. M3 7JY

June 2nd Poetry of the Packaging will be shown at One Minute (volume 2) at The Gallery Space at Cow Lane Studios, at 7 pm on Thursday 26th June 2008
Cow Lane, Salford, M5 4NB
Artists include:
Gordon Dawson, Laure Prouvost, Martin Pickles, Marty St.James, Eva Rudlinger, Steven Ball, Guy Sherwin, Louisa Minkin, Steve Hawley, Gary Peploe, Lyn Loo, Riccardo Iacono, Hilary Jack, Nicolas Herbert, Claire Morales, Catherine Elwes, Tina Keane, Kate Meynell, Kerry Baldry, Phillip Warnell, Nick Jordan, Margie Schnibbe, Stuart Pound, Esther Johnson, Mark Wigan, Andy Fear, Philip Sanderson, Erica Scourti, Unconscious Fims and Deklan Kilfeather.

May 3rd

The Speech of Reason is being screened at Recontres Internationales Madrid 2008, as part of the UTOPIA/ PROPAGANDA programme, on Sunday 11th May.
website




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