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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.
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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.


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


April 4th

Spectrum (2006) slide show version is being shown at the 'Relocating Absence' at the Elevator
Gallery
. Other artists include: Brada Barassi | Craig Cooper | Amelia Crouch | Hondartza Fraga
Zbigniew Tomasz Kotkiewicz | Anastasia Loginova | Michelle Lord | Erin Newell
Ellakajsa Nordström | Anahita Razmi | Mikio Saito & Youngho Lee.

18 April – 4 May 2008
PRIVATE VIEW Thursday, 17 April, 6.30 - 10 pm
www.elevatorgallery.co.uk





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

March 26th

Worldlanguage
is being screened at the Hull International Film Festival on April 16th, as part of the 'One Minute' schowreel curated by Kerry Baldry.


March 18th

Ghost Story is being screened as part of Purescreen DVD launch at Roxy Bar & Screen, London Bridge. For more information about Purescreen, which is curated by Sophia Crilly and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, click here.

March 4th

Spectrum (2006) is being screened as part of tank.tv The Whole World, curated by Ian White, online from 1st January 2008 .
"The Whole World is a list of lists: a programme of artists’ film and video and an interactive online exhibition..."


Feb 9th

Everybody Understands Me is being screened as part of tank.tv The Whole World, curated by Ian White, online from 1st January 2008.


Jan 28th

Everybody Understands Me is being screened at
the Elevator Gallery's Dead Bodies and Cardboard show, opening Friday 8th Feb from 6pm, Hackney Wick. Other artists in the show are: Sarah Doyle, Kirsty Dixon, Laura May Lewis, Antonio Gianasi, Emma Thatcher, Erica Scourti, Patricia Shrigley, Grant Foster, Hannah Jesmen, Matt Lippiatt.
.Curated by Cherie-Marie Veiderveld & Simon Reuben White

Mother Studios, Queens Yard, White Post Lane, 3 min walk from Hackney Wick station.
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News 2007

December 8th

Some of my videos are being screened at
the musuem of Contemporary Art in Siegen, Germany as part of the 'Mindhacking' programme, on December 8.
museumfuergegenwartskunstsiegen.de

December 7th

New video online!
Everybody Understands Me is an animated tale of titles taken from self-help and psychology books, check it out here.

November 5th

The Speech of Reason is being screened Arizona State University Art Museum,
for 3 days in November 2007 (26th 27th and 28th). Website here.

October 23rd

The Speech of Reason has won Best Film at the Radical Reels competition of short films! Here's what they said:

" The atmosphere in the audience was very high last night. Your film received lots of laughs, clapping and some cheering, too."

The four winners and the categories:
Best Film: "The Speech of Reason", dir. Erica Scourti (UK, 2006)
Most Experimental Film: "Under Twilight", dir. Jean Gabriel Periot (France, 2006)
Audience Award: "Test Phantom", dir. Robin Kiteley (UK, 2007)
Young Filmmaker Award: "Cerebratorium", dir. Bryan Launch (UK, 2007)

October 10th

The Speech of Reason has been chosen for the Radical Reels competetion of short films, where Malcom Le Grice is one of the selectors. Sunday 21 October (19.00)
CUBE MICROPLEX, Bristol. visit website.


October 4th

I have been invited
to Berlin from 5th- 8th October, to set up an international art prpoject called 'Signs of the City' with artists from London, Berlin, Bareclona and Sofia. Other London artists going are Melissa Bliss, Doug Nicolson and Terez Osztafi.

October 4th

Ghost Story is being screened at the Sadho Poetry Film Festival,
in October 2007 and then travelling in 2008. Website here.

September 22nd

Ghost Story is being screened at the Reine Sofia Museum of Modern Art in Madrid on October 4th, 14th and 19th. And I'm going. Website here, pdf programme here.

September 18th

I've finally managed to upload an essay I wrote earlier this year about my project Inanima: an illustrated history of stuff. Read it here.


September 15th

World language is being screened at the Contact Theatre in Manchester as part of the 'one minute' showreel, on Tuesday 16th October- visit website

September 7th

Nicolas Chidiac, an old school friend who works in adverstising and is based in Dubai, commented on my work on his blog:

One of the many traits of the emerging media landscape is the idea of remixability, cutting and pasting reality into new constructs or simply put synthesis for creation...
read the full post here


September 6th

The Speech of Reason will being screened at Media Art Festival Friesland, which takes place from September 20th – September 30th, 2007 in Friesland, Netherlands.
www.mediaartfriesland.nl


August 4th

The Speech of Reason and Trailer Truths III are being screened at the Wewerka Pavillion in Münster as part of the mind Hacking II programme, on the 31st August, 1st and 2nd Sept. The skulptur projekte in münster 2007 will be running at the same time.
Curated by Theresa Frölich and Antonia Lotz- more info pdf.


July 23rd

Just back from Anso, it was absolutely amazing! Many thanks to Ivan Torres who organsied it and well done to all the artists who took part- check my contact page for links to their websites. The main festival website is here.
I will be uploading pictures of my work soon...once I've recovered.

July 14th

I am off to the Pyrenees village of Anso, near Zaragoza, to do a residency and create new work in response to the surroundings. I'll be back on the 23d- more news then!

July 10th

Trailer Truths I is being published as part of The Centre of Attention Magazine no.4 (DVD). The launch is at the Publish and Be Damned Fair, on 29th July at Rochelle School, London, E2 7ES. visit website.

July 3rd

A selection of my videos made with young people throughout London and Slough is now online, check the COMMISSIONS page to watch them.

June 15th

A selection of my videos will be shown this Sunday, 17th June, at V22 Gallery in a screening called Nothingness, curated by The Projection Gallery.com with V22 Gallery.
Show starts at 7pm,10-16 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL.
www.theprojectiongallery.com
www.v22ashwinstreet.com

May 22nd

World Language will be screened at One Minute, curated by Kerry Baldry for Cogcollective, at Candid Arts Trust, on June 7th- visit website.


May 13th

Trailer Truths I will be screened continuously for 2 weeks at Waygood Gallery's Little Jewel Cinema as part of their 'Sapphire Season', from 12th- 25th July 2007, in Newcastle- visit website.

May 1st

The Speech of Reason will be screened at the King Street Arts Centre, Belfast, as part of ‘The Perfect Real’ curated by Helen de Main and Maj Hasager, on 1st May 2007.

April 23rd

Ghost Story and The Speech of Reason will be screend at the Athens Video Art Festival, on 27th and 29th April 2007- visit website.

April 3rd

Ghost Story has been chosen for both exhbitions making up this year's Creekside Open, at APT Gallery in Deptford, London. Matthew Collings and Emma Biggs selected the first show, running from May 3rd- 14th 2007, while Victoria Miro selected the second show, running from May17th- 28th 2007. visit website



March 5th

The Speech of Reason has been chosen for the 700IS Film & Video Fesitval, Iceland, from March 24th- 31st 2007 at The Culture Centre of Fljótsdalshéra- visit website

February 20th

The catalogue for Espace Crosie's 'Saison Video' is available online and in print, click here to download a copy. Spectrum and Ghost Story are being screened as part of Saison Video 2007.

January 25th

Ghost Story (2006) will be screened at 'A Room (With A View)' film screening on Feb 15th, at Arenberg Schouwburg in Antwerp- visit website

January 25th

The Speech of Reason will be screened as part of the 'Video Killed the Painting Star', on Feb 6th, at CCA (Centre for Contemporary Arts) Glasgow - visit website


January 21st

Ghost Story has been chosen for VIDEONALE 11 at Kunstmuseum Bonn, March 2007.


November 9th

Trailer Truths III (2 min 25 sec 2004) will be screened at will be shown at the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, 23rd of November to 2nd of December 2006 in Paris at Jeu de Paume, the French Cinémathèque, the Théâtre Paris-Villette, the Cinéma l'Entrepôt, the Cinéma du Monde, and in 3 cultural institutes. visit website

November 5th

Spectrum (1 min 2006) will be screened as part of the Espace Croise 'Saison Video' in Lille, France, in a programme called 'Public Place' which starts in April 2007.

November 1st

Ghost Story (3 min 50 sec, 2006) will be screened as part of the Espace Croise 'Saison Video' in Tourcing, France, in a programme called 'Hijacking' which starts in May 2007.

October 29th

The Speech of Reason (3 min 12 sec, 2006) will be screened at the Airspace Gallery in Stoke-on Trent, on Nov 17th,as part of the 'Self Space' video programme. Curated by Yu-Chen Wang and Matt Roberts of Basementartproject.....more

October 28th

Ghost Story (3 min 50 sec, 2006) was screened as part of the tank.tv screening a the ksuns kinogaleria in Latvia, on 27th October more

September 28th

The video version of 'Spectrum' (1 min, 2006) has been included on the 'Loop Pool DVD', which is distributed by the Oberhausen Film Festival 2006. To view the online (PDF) catalogue click here.

September 22nd

Some of my videos are playing at the Liverpool Biennale at The Projection Room Gallery. Visit the website for more.

September 21st

Ghost Story (video, 4 min, 2006) is playing via webcast on PARK4DTV, a Netherlands-based video collective. In association with tank.tv.

September 8th

Ghost Story (video, 4 min, 2006) and Trailer Truths I (2004) will be screened at the Zebra Poetry Film Award in Berlin, from 14th - 19th October 2006. more

August 5th

Ghost Story will be screened at Bureau as part of 'Purescreen 14: Making Love to My Ego', a film programme complementing the Castlefield Gallery exhibition. more

July 13th

The premiere of At Your Own Risk, a video made with young people from East Greenwich about risky behaviour as part of an artist's commission for Independant Photography (IP), is on Saturday 22nd July at the Odeon Cinema in Greenwich.

July 10th

Ghost Story will be screened at a Slack Video & Short Circuits event at The Lamp, in Hull, on 10th July 2006. visit the website

June 24th

Ghost Story has been chosen for two film programmes at 'Kinema screenings' at the Synch Festival in Athens, Greece, in a showreel that inculdes works by Kenneth Anger and Matthias Mueller amongst others. visit the website

June 9th

Trailer Truths I (2004) will be playing as part of the Purescreen Archive of artists' films, at Castlefield Gallery, 16 June - 30 July 2006. visit the websitecascourti

 

 

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