I have been offered a residency at The Guesthouse, in Cork, Ireland.

The Guesthouse is a visual artist-led initiative whose objective is to create a place for production, meeting and cross-practice peer exchange that includes various forms of public discourse and encounter.

Previous Residents include: Ian Helliwell (UK) Kenneth Goldsmith (US) Gavin Prior (IE), Sebastian Buerkner (DE)  Stephen Vitiello (US), Strange Attractor (IE)

www.theguesthouse.ie

Manifesto Piece (2011) is being shown at the Rio Cinema's late night event 'At Home With the Ludskis' on 14th January, 11pm- 3am.

Featuring: Dusty Limits, Mary Epworth, Ernesto Sarezale, Harriet Fleuriot, Dalston Underground Studios, Andy Warhol, Granny Ludski, Guy Debord, Sue Frumin, The House of O'Dwyer, Bother, Hanna Rubin, Future Sound of Clapton: Comadisco, Cátia Sousa, Erica Scourti

At Home with the Ludskis' wishes to break away from the traditional art exhibition as well as the typical cinema going experience, to create something startling, thought provoking and entertaining.

grannyludski.wordpress.com
www.riocinema.org.uk

Manifesto Piece (2011) is currently being featured on the Media Migrations channel, curated by Duncan White, who has written the short text accompanying the specially-made 15 minute version of the video.

Media Migrations hopes to question modern forms of movement: the real and imaginary boundaries and thresholds that define modern urban experience. 

We Want (Manifesto Piece) is the second in a series of artist-led video web installations on 2010Lab – the first was Island Race by William Raban.

Click here to visit the channel and see the video.

www.2010lab.tv/en/video/media-migrations

Enter a space of wonder and enchantment in the Winter Garden Grotto on the Queen Elizabeth Hall Roof and enjoy delicious festive treats from the café as you sit amongst the twinkly lights.
Designed by Bernadette Roberts, the Grotto has been built with gardeners from Grounded Ecotherapy.

The audio-visual installation inside was created by the Huddle, a group of talented young people, in collaboration with artist Erica Scourti.

southbankcentre.co.uk

Harold Offeh, Arabesque 2007

With films by: Laure Prouvost, Charlie Tweed, Margaret Salmon, Maria Marshall, Harold Offeh, Yaron Lapid, Fred Lindberg, Erica Scourti.

Friday, 9 December, 6pm – 9pm
Angus Hughes Gallery, 26 Lower Clapton Road, London, E5 0PD

Live operatic intermissions by The Society of Imaginary Friends.

"Mainstream 2.1" presents a series of artists' films brought together by their varying strategies in the use of actuality as a material object.
Much variation can be sited in how artists and filmmakers approach the use of actuality as a creative, political, and philosophical means for art production. Imbedded in these works, dialogues and playful critiques can be found of the documentary form, documentation, performance and spectatorship.

Sheffield Fringe was born out of a desire to create a platform dedicated to an expansive understanding of how we make and view documentaries, incorporating a multitude of suggested strategies of reform. 

Download full press release

Kindly supported by LUX

www.societyofimaginaryfriends.com
www.angus-hughes.com
www.sheffieldfringe.com

Light Writing
03 December 2011–23 December 2011
Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery

Artists included: Steven Ball, Ian Breakwell and Mike Leggett, Steve Hawley, Louis Henderson, David Lamelas, Laure Prouvost, Richard Serra, Erica Scourti, John Smith, Pete Spence, Maria Theodoraki and Ryszard Wasko.


Lightwriting considers the relationship between word and image in artists’ experimental film and video.

Animated text is commonplace in everyday contemporary media, but artists have been experimenting with the interface of word, language, image and movement in film and video for decades through formal exploration.
This programme of works by historically significant, established and emerging contemporary artists encompasses a range of approaches to mobilising the visual, semantic and linguistic with puns, palindromes and performance; referencing literature, philosophy, poetry, and media.

The exhibition is curated by Duncan White and Steven Ball at the British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection, Central St Martins College of Art and Design.

www.studycollection.org.uk
www.shu.ac.uk

New video online: She's Materialising!

A powerpoint presentation style video about visibility concealing a meditation on doubt, sincerity and falling apart in reverse.

New blog post, after a summer hiatus: depression, confusion, info-deluge, filtering and Unspeak.

Crash Course
Solo exhbition at Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
Opens 29th September

Crash Course develops Erica Scourti’s interest in text, language and processes of translation and transcription in an installation of and video that explore transmission of bodies of knowledge, old and new technologies and the role of the artist as giver and receiver of instructions.

Using the internet as a bank of historical and current knowledge, the exhibition draws on audio-book podcasts, Google search suggestions and online photo/ video banks to explore ways of navigating a course through the mass of information available online. Casting the artist into the role of both teacher and student, the works employ different pedagogic and educational models such as transcription, editing and essay-writing as processes to create the work.

www.gloriagallery.com

Sequence 2: Launch Event
no.w.here

Thursday 29th September, 7pm, Launch event is FREE

Sequence is an artist-run publication devoted to contemporary film and video art, published by no.w.here, edited by Simon Payne.

The second issue of Sequence includes: A.L. Rees on the films of Nick Collins; artists’ pages by Lis Rhodes, Cathy Rogers and Samantha Rebello; from the 1950s (and 2010) by Jeff Keen; Duncan White on ‘printology’ with text-based pieces by Ken Jacobs, Dieter Meier, Erica Scourti, Caroline Bergvall, Annabel Nicolson, Bob Cobbing and Louis Henderson; an interview with Pip Chodorov by Kim Knowles; Angela Allen and Nicky Hamlyn on painting and film; Shama Khanna on Nino Pezella; artists’ essays by Lucy Parker and Luke Aspell; and Andrew Vallance on the ‘black box phenomenon’.

The launch of Sequence (no.2) is accompanied by Mullender and Grierson's live a/v noise improv 'involving photophonic audio, live video, and algorithmic armatures', a screening of Samantha Rebello's film Forms Are Not Self-Subsistent Substances and a brand new multi-projector piece by James Holcombe.

www.no-w-here.org.uk

I am currently in Athens, Greece, participating in HAND OVER CINEMA, a hand-made film workshop held at LabA in collaboration with the LaborBerlin film lab and the Athens Goethe Centre, which will also host a screening of the works made by the group of international artists taking part.

Organised by Vassilis Bourikas of LabA, Athens.

laborberlin.wordpress.com
www.goethe.de

I have been offered a residency at Vermont Studio Center in March 2012.

"Founded by artists in 1984, the Vermont Studio Center is the largest international artists' and writers' Residency Program in the United States, hosting 50 visual artists and writers each month from across the country and around the world."

www.vermontstudiocenter.org

As of August, I will be a London correspondent for 2010LAB.tv

2010LAB.tv monitors and accompanies change in the industrial and knowledge sectors in the Ruhr region and European partner cities. 2010LAB.tv is web TV and blog forum and is conceived as a European portal for the cultural and creative industries. Authors from London, Rotterdam and Istanbul report for LAB on changing cultures.

www.2010lab.tv

Here's a research video, shown at the final event/ open studio 'Report'.

Plus new blog post about Folkestone and the idea of high visibility.

I'm currently finishing my micro-residency at LOW&HIGH interdisciplinary platform, Folkestone.
On Sunday 19th June, the final event of the residency:
'Vacant Value' - culminating event; 'Report' by the artists, open studio.
4- 6 pm,
LOW&HIGH 15 Tontine Street, Folkestone, CT20 1JT

LOW&HIGH interdisciplinary platform micro-residency, Folkestone

Full programme and project details here

Artists taking part (in chronological order)

Maria Theodoraki
Emily Paige Short
Sydney Hart and Erica Scourti
Blue Curry
Justyna Scheuring
TRANSIT\ION (Magda Fabianczyk &Tilly Fowler) and Gillian White

For more info on the residencies, and other events happening over the summer, visit

LAUNCH event, this Sunday 29th May, 19:00- 22:00

LOW&HIGH

Sheffield Fringe launches June 10th.

"Conceptual art meets documentary to launch at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011..."


Artists taking part:

Maria Marshall, Laure Prouvost, Harold Offeh, Charlie Tweed, Behrooz Karamizade, Sharone Lifschitz, Fred Lindberg, Yaron Lapid, Erica Scourti

Fred Lindberg & Angus Braithwaite, “Terrorpiss”, 2011

Short clip of Modern War Trilogy (2010-11) installed in the gallery of House of Foundation, for Mollebyen Literature Festival in Moss, Norway, 12-15 May

www.mollebyenlitteratur.no

lowandhighplatform.wordpress.com

Modern War Trilogy (2010-11) is being screened in the gallery of House of Foundation, as part of the Mollebyen Literature Festival in Moss, Norway, 12-15 May, whose theme is 'War and Peace'.

Also screening on the opening night is the outdoor silent video projection <<FRONT>>,
by British-Norwegian writer and artist Caroline Bergvall, for which I assisted with the technical aspects and researched the moving image.

www.carolinebergvall.com
For more info about LOW&HIGH:

www.mollebyenlitteratur.no

Duncan White, writing on LAB NOW website mentions my video/ photographs ‘Manifesto Piece’ in the context of artists working with the public sphere.

Click here to read his post: Street Art- In times of trouble take to the streets?

www.2010lab.tv

Woman Nature Alone (2010) is being screened at the Australian International Experimental Film Festival, in a programme called Borrowing from the Palette of Another

6pm, Saturday 30th April The BAck doOR @ suek-artist Melbourne

Australian International Experimental Film Festival
Bringing quality experimental film and video from all over the world to Australia

download prgramme here

www.aieff.org

Artists taking part:

Derek Hart, Peter Freund, Roger Deutsch, Steven Ball, Bob Cotton,  Maximillian Le Cain,  Jodie Mack, Paul O Donoghue
and more, in the other programmes

Sheffield Fringe is a curatorial intitiative wishing to contribute to the collapsing notions of what constitutes the documentary form.
They are a collective of artists and filmmakers interested in moving image works, which are personal, gutsy, occasionally seeking to make us uncomfortable, and often remain unresolved.

Sheffield Fringe is a showcase held annually alongside the Sheffield Doc/Fest.

For more info visit their site:
www.sheffieldfringe.com

Artists taking part:

Maria Marshall, Laure Prouvost, Harold Offeh, Charlie Tweed, Behrooz Karamizade, Sharone Lifschitz, Fred Lindberg, Yaron Lapid, Erica Scourti

A programme of work exploring structure and process through sound, performance, and videos.

With a special screening of James Benning’s new work YouTube Trilogy at 7pm

Performances:

Anne Bean, Chris Gladwin & Richard Wilson, Stephen Cornford, Melanie Clifford, Howard Jacques, Kalendar + Clutter, Kamama + J Milo Taylor, Kaya King, Rachel Moore, Ring Mod Orkestra + Marlon Random

With InCounter DJ Matt Brown

Videos by:

Holly Antrum, Steven Ball, Katy Connor, Riccardo Iacono, sue.k, Erica Scourti, Maria Theodoraki

Friday 4th March 7pm- 3am
@ the Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, opposite Peckham Rye Rail Station

Tickets: £7 on the door, £5 in advance from incounter.eventbrite.com
Email us at incounter.art@gmail.com for paying guestlist

LIGHT WRITING at the BANNER REPEATER project space

LIGHT WRITING considers the relationship between word and image in artists experimental film and video.

Artists:
Steven Ball
Ian Breakwell & Mike Leggett
Steve Hawley
Louis Henderson
David Lamelas
Laure Prouvost
Richard Serra
Erica Scourti
John Smith
pete spence
Maria Theodoraki
Ryszard Wasko

curated by Duncan White and Steven Ball

On Sunday 16th, 2-4pm Duncan White and Steven Ball will discuss the selectedworks, followed by drinks.

www.studycollection.co.uk
www.bannerrepeater.org

BANNER REPEATER, platform 1, Hackney Downs Station, London E8

Participating artists:

David Hall and Tony Sinden
John Smith
Mark Lewis
Erica Scourti
Sarah Dobai
Manuel Saiz
Matthew Noel-Tod
Anne McGuire
Mark Wilcox

Recalling The Shots

A special Event as part of the programme 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere'

On Wednesday 8th December writer, artist and curator Steven Ball will present a specially curated programme entitled Recalling the Shots that will showcase landmark artworks from the past 40 years, including experimental cinema classics, rarely screened artists’ films, and rediscovered seminal video works. In connection with Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, these works will investigate familiar cinematic roles such as the actor, the director, the voice-over artist, and the extra; reconstructing performance, music and scene description from classic cinema, television and contemporary media.