Erica
Scourti is an artist/ film-maker working mainly with digital media
whose videos have been screened internationally in galleries and
festivals. Her work is represented by murmurart online gallery, www.murmurart.com.
She has extensive experience of running participatory video projects, workshops
and digital
software courses in community and educational settings.
News 2010
June 28th
I am now doing a residency at i-park, in Connecticut, USA. Please visit my blog if you want to hear about how its going:
I have been offered residency at i-park, in Connecticut, USA, this summer (May- June 2010).
"I-Park is a 450-acre woodland retreat in rural East Haddam, Connecticut. I-Park aspires to take these natural gifts and create a special space where the important work being done by solitary individuals in their artistic and intellectual pursuits is encouraged and celebrated - a living, three-dimensional environment/community uniquely conducive to the creative process. "
VOICE/UNDER is an investigation into the way artists use the tension between sound and image as a tool.
The featured work uses the inherent contract and fusion between the two registers within its structure, sometimes to create disparity and at other times to collude in order to raise questions of perception, language and understanding.
The resultant questions might lead us into obscurity, or intrigue us as to the narrative possibilities decided by the viewer’s individual interpretation of what they see and hear.
Artists:
John Smith, Andrew Brand and Alison Ballard, Dan Walwin, Emily Wilczek, Gareth Hudson, Jordan Baseman, Erica Scourti
Curated by Ellie Russell, Dan Green and Amy Fisher.
Screen Tears is being screened at the Australian International Experimental Film Festival in Melbourne (30th April- 2nd May 2010), as part of a programme titled 'Private Space, Public Space and the Line In-Between'.
Everybody Undersrtands Me and Spectrum are being shown as part of The Pursuit of Happiness, at the Arsenal Gallery, Poznan, Poland from May 7th- June 6th 2010.
The Pursuit of Happiness show at the Arsena? Gallery in Pozna? is an outcome of two years of The Pursuit of Happiness Project's development and collaboration between the curators and the artists.
As sources of inspiration for the exhibition served European diversity, philosophy, politics, science and entertainment.
The exhibition aims to encourage creative discussion on the phenomenon of happiness and its pursuit in a contemporary, global context.
Artists:
Louise Adkins, Alexandrer Bates, Melissa Bugarella, Kathryn Cooper, Andy D'Cruz, Charlie Coffey, Michael Davies, Maddy Dickerson, Tinsel Edwards, James C. Fagan, Ester Faiman, Gene-George, Jerome Harrington, Anna Kalwajtys, Merve Kaptan, Maria Kjartansdottir, Aneta Lis, Eva Lis, Tomasz Madajczak, Ivo Niki?, Herve Perez, Paulina P?achecka, Marianna & Daniel O'Reilly, Alicja Rogalska, Mateusz Sadowski, Justyna Scheuring, Erica Scourti, Emily Paige Short, Michal Tkachenko, Matthew Verdon, Siobhan Wanklyn, Liz Wroe, Fani Zguro, Piotr ?yli?ski.
My new video Half Life is being shown in One Minute vol 4, curated by Kerry Baldry: a programme of artists' moving image, features over 30 artists and includes an eclectic range of techniques, media, processes including stop frame, video, film, Super8 and 16mm, split screen, superimposition, animation, digital and live action. All with one thing in common - the restriction of working within the time limit of 1 minute.
Artists include:
Tony Hill, Bob Levene, Katherine Meynell, Steven Ball, Simon Payne, David Kefford, Laure Prouvost, Eva Rudlinger, Liam Wells, Chris Meigh Andrews, Tina Keane, Philip Sanderson, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore, Alex Pearl, Gordon Dawson, Daniela Butsch, Jonathan Moss, Cate Elwes, Martin Pickles, Riccardo Iacono, Louisa Minkin, Michael Cousin, Kate Jessop, Anahita Razmi, Stuart Pound, Kerry Baldry, Elizabeth Hobbs, James Snazzell, Tansy Spinks, Zhel Vukicevic, Fil Ieropoulos, Niki Rolls, Michael Szpakowski, Marty St. James, Richard Tuohy, Nick Herbert, Virginia Hilyard, Clarie Morales and others
Preview on Thursday 6th May at Moors Bar, Crouch End, 57 Park Road, Crouch End, London, N8 8SY on Thursday 6th May from 6.30 – 8.30pm.
March 5th My video, Screen Tears, is being screened at The Public, West Bromwich as part of a video installation programme, open Saturday 13th March- Sunday 25th April www.thepublic.com February 26th My video, Reality Life, has been chosen for the SALON VIDEO ART PRIZE selected by Mike Sperlinger (Assistant Director - Lux), and Zineb Sedira (artist working in Photography, Video and installation).
Opens 4th March, Matt Roberts Project SPace, Vyner St 2. Other artists selected:
Mauricio Arango, Matthew Bate, Sara Bjarland, Mel Brimfield, Aliceson Carter, Katy Connor, Valentina Ferrandes, Nick Jordan, Sai Hua Kuan, Michael Marczewski, Sophie Michael, Ian Nesbitt , Matthew Noel-Tod, Helena Ohman McCardle, Kirk Palmer, Andreas Papadopolous, Mario Pfeifer, Daisy Richardson, Marianna Simnett, Katri Walker
February 24th My new video, Citizen Choice, is online.
February 18th Complex Infrastructure- The BAck doOR @ suek-artist, Melbourne, Australia www.cogcollective.co.uk
A programme of artists' moving image from the UK curated by Steven Ball.
This collection of recent works by London-based artists describes the complexity and contingency of contemporary cultural infrastructure and urban life. Charting a course from systems of the micro-subjective, through mediated experience and fabulous storytelling, to an elaboration of the evolution of life and its artificial structures, these works mobilise the languages of business, the media, science and philosophy, and experiment with forms of performance, through action, transcription, narration and song.
InCounter Berlin:
a night of Sound and Video in collaboration with Artkilart
Performances by:
Vincent Epplay, Melanie Clifford, Stephen Cornford, Jan Ostrowski, Entartete Electronische [rybn], Demolucarisation [Projectsinge], Stephen Shiell, Hori Tetsuya
Videos by:
Steven Ball, Constant Dullaart, Tessa Garland, Dave Griffiths, Kate Jessop, Martin Kohout, Bill Leslie, Lillevän, Michaela Nettell, Michael Robinson, Erica Scourti, Tobias Sternberg, Charlie Tweed
A new collaboration between two collectives, this event brings artists from Berlin, Paris, and London together to create a fresh, experimental night of live sound performance interspersed with a series of videos about transmission and transcoding, between types of media
In association with WHIPPIT’s Tipping Points exhibition, running from 4th March- 1st April 2010 at HBC Berlin.
Tipping Points is a new exhibition bringing together artists working across a number of artforms: sculpture, film, sound and performance. The focus of the show is an interrogation of material, media and technology – and the ways in which artists exploit these in order to affect viewers’ perception of their work and the world.
Campbell Works, 27 Belfast Road, London N16 6UN 28th November 2009 - Admission £3 - Doors open 7.30pm - Performances begin 8pm
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
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
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.
Screen Tearsis 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
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.
Other artists include:
Merve Kaptan, Maria Kjartansdottir, Alicja Rogalska, Justyna Scheuring, Matthew Verdon, Siobhan Wanklyn and Fani Zguro
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
August 20th
Screen Tears won the viewer's choice award at TENDERPIX, the experimental film strand of Rushes Soho Shorts Festival 2009.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
31st July 6PM-10PM
PERFORMANCES 8.30-9PM
BEHIND THE COUNTER CAFE, WALLIS ROAD. E3 whippit.org
July 15th Screen Tears is showing at TENDERPIX, the experimental film strand of Rushes Soho Shorts Festival 2009.
The premiere is Saturday 25th July at Tenderpixel gallery, London WC1.
Have a look at a new series of videos, Screams, on vimeo:
April
Statement of the Artis 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
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
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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