Erica Scourti video artist

Drawing Dancing Scores- Jude Walton workshop

A two-day workshop led by Jude Walton which explores the relationship between gesture, mark and movement and the documents and records that result.
Jude Walton is a Melbourne-based interdisciplinary artist, and was invited by ICFAR to lead this workshop at The Drawing Room gallery, London as part of their From Scratch season exploring the legacy of British composer Cornelius Cardew.

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From Scratch

A series of events exploring the legacy of experimental British composer Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra (1967-71). This series anticipates The Drawing Room’s winter programme which will include an exhibition of ‘Treatise’ (1963-7), Cardew’s impressive 193-page graphic score, original manuscripts, Scratch Books and other archival material brought together for the first time in the UK; film screenings and symposia.

From Scratch is conceived in collaboration with ICFAR (International Centre for Fine Art Research), University of the Arts, London.

www.icfar.org.uk
www.drawingroom.org.uk

Alison Knowles workshop

On the 3rd and 4th April 2009, ICFAR invited famous NYC performance artist Alison Knowles to lead a two-day PhD workshop for students of University of the Arts London, Roehampton University and Birkbeck College, UCL exploring performance and drawing in practice based research. Knowles, who gained notoriety for her work with Fluxus and the experimental avant-garde in New York during the 1960, also gave a talk to staff and students on the evening of the 3rd April. Both the workshop and talk were held at the October Gallery in Bloomsbury, London.

The video is a condensed overview of the two-day workshop .

Community/ educational commissions

BBC BLAST in Barking

Working with 3 groups of young people from a Barking secondary school to develop film-making skills using top-end camera and sound equipment, and create a short edited video about their opinions of Barking.
Click here to play one of the videos made by the group (opens BBC website).

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'AT YOUR OWN RISK'

Media artist's commission, working with young people from East Greenwich to produce a video that addresses risky behaviour. Using mobile phones and cameras we collected words and phrases to make moving poems within a video. more

Commissioned by Independent Photography

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'HIGH SCHOOL HERE WE COME'

Project around trasnition work with Creative Partnerships London West and Year 6 pupils at Three Bridges Primary School, in Southall, summer 2007.
I worked with poet Joseph Coelho to create a series of short videos about leaving primary school and looking ahead to secondary school. We worked with memory maps, with script-writing and acting and also interviewing techniques in order to explore the theme of transition from different perspectives.

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'BURNHAM BEECHES' Project with Creative Partnerships Slough and Montem Primary School, Years 5 and 6. I worked with poet Joseph Coelho to create animations of sentences relating to the changing seasons. The workshops were staged outdoors in local green space, Burnham Beeches, and the final DVD is on permanent display at the Beeches' Visitor Centre.

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YOUTH ON TOP

Consultation video made with young people from Llyod Park Youth Club, Walthamstow, to find out how they would like to improve their local area and provisions for young people.
The video was screened to a group of local counicllors, as well as the young people and was a success all round.

"It was SICK (aka good)"- Jake
"It showed the views of young youths in the area. Well done!"- Aisha

'DISAPPEARING GIRL'

This film was made with members from the Barking & Dagenham Youth Forum, in partnership with Studio 3 Arts.
It was made to raise awareness of bullying and its effects on young people.
We hoped to show the seriousness and consequences of bullying and to encourage you to think about your own experiences and actions.

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