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Dust with sun and silence
Dust with sun and silence
All the links and artists bios mentioned in the show I’m presenting, Dust with sun and silence, on Montez Press Radio, airing Thursday 22nd August 2019 at
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A partial overview of writing happening in Athens, through a selection of recorded readings by Greek, Cypriot and Athens-based artists, writers and publishers. With contributions from Margarita Athanasiou, Eleni Bagaki,…
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Knits & Knots
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My posting frequency is rapidly declining (currently at about 1 a year, maybe 2) but I refuse to give up the blog- so here is a transcript of the poem, or whatever it was (pop lyrical text, I think I described it as), that I read as an intro to Shaka McGlotten’s keynote, Knitting and Knotting Love, at Transmediale 2019.
I’ll post up the video as well soon!
“Anyway, as we were invited to…
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Losing Phosphorus
Lost to the Phosphorus, 2017, performed at Somerset House, London. Photo: Dan Wilton
The performance Lost to the Phosphorus involves me reciting a text in Greek and English, while wandering around the space with a torch in near-total darkness, drawing ‘evil eyes’ (το μάτι,an apotropaic device common in eastern Mediterranean countries) on audience members’ hands. Like a bouncer or security agent…
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Speak Through You x Hot Wheels Projects
Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 20:00–23:00 Hot Wheels Projects Patision 41, 104 33 Athens, Greece An evening of readings, videos and performances from a group of artists working through the embodiment of voice, inscription and linguistic dynamics. Exploring the haptics of auto-ethnographic writing, found text and technology-assisted transcription, the event features diverse schemas of approaching…
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Lost to the Phosphorus from Erica Scourti on Vimeo.
edited version of Lost to the Phosphorus, performed at BMoCa, Boulder, and Somerset House, both 2017. Photography by Dan Wilton
Introduction to Dream Actions: Embodied Visions
Introduction to Dream Actions: Embodied Visions
When I started researching this series I was interested in what has became of institutional critique- a strand of artistic practice centred on critiquing institutions like museums, galleries and the art market, usually from within. Part of my interest stemmed from reconciling myself with being resident in an establishment like Somerset House, with its august past and all the expectations that…
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dad's diary from Erica Scourti on Vimeo.
THINK YOU KNOW ME (2015) EXCERPT from Erica Scourti on Vimeo.
SECONDARY SOURCES + NEGATIVE DOCS_E_SCOURTI from Erica Scourti on Vimeo.
NEGATIVE DOCS- h264- lo res1 from Erica Scourti on Vimeo.
LUCK from Erica Scourti on Vimeo.
If institutional critique has defined a largely exclusive group of artists who engaged the systems and structures of the art world, the curators argue that those driven by strategies of appropriation were operating under a very similar mandate to disrupt the same systems and hierarchies of art. With these gestures continually overlapping, Burton and Ellegood maintain, perhaps for the first time in the space of an exhibition, that these same artists were themselves in fact deeply engaged in strategies of institutional critique — and that this term has until now been only narrowly deployed to describe what should be a much broader critical practice in our recent history. Moreover, the curators are keen to illustrate that for the artists in this exhibition, the notion of the “institution” extends beyond the frame of the art world to comprise a host of organizational bodies that make up our society.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/expanding-criticality/
REBIRTH after the DEATH of the outage.
(something I wrote in December 2015)
The dead body, brought to life again in the new year. A resurrection, of the character that lies within those images and locations. How would you bring that into the brief? An attempt of the artist herself to make sense of the past- and to link it to the present.
But also- life story as fiction- as the starting point of ANOTHER life, that is NOT my own. A life to be 'based' on- based on a true story. Gifting, giving away the raw materials of someone else's life, and using them to create what could at a stretch, even be seen as an ENCRYPTED versions; a mix of fiction and facts so that the distinctions; become pointless; an incoherent narrative made coherent by my own role in it.
This character is at a turning point in her life; questioning what is next. These videos are dreams or they are flashbacks; or they are happening now. Her life feels like it is NOT HER OWN- she may be trying to reclaim it, trying to reconnect to older versions of herself; the scene you are writing may be BASED on any point in the writer's life, but it is happening now; she will film it in the present tense, wherever she happens to be.
It’s not about telling a TRUTH about the artists and her life, it’s about using these as a starting point to explore a sense of fragmentation and how that can actually be productive- the fragmented subject is less easily read, less easily understood.
That way, she retains a certain type of privacy- her profile no longer COMPUTES, and that is potentially a useful fact. How can she scramble her profile- and who is she it doing it for? Which audience is it that is 'following’ or cares?
McKenzie presents performance as a condition operating on three levels: organizationally, technologically and culturally; failure to perform in these three categories results, respectively, in being fired, being obsolete, or being normalized (i.e. culturally invisible)
Claire Bishop Black Box, White Cube, Public Space
Secondary Sources (auto edit) from Erica Scourti on Vimeo.
‘thoughts’
Hello, its been a while since we spoke
I see all your photos and feel guilty
Last night was a record, 2 hours sleep
I ahte them all even though I tell myself oterhwise and pretend to be devotional
I've climbed back out of the joke. Joke’s on you
I try to just let it go and not use it as a stuck to heat myself with.
Fuck mind like a trampoline bouncing all over. A knots of what exactly I couldn't say
Sitting by the water, drinking coffee.
A vision of a fine cloth, embroidered, that has been dusty DVD crinkled being lovingly wasted and stitched and ironed
experiences written on us in stitches
my heart is hard. Or numb.
Alone, bare bones, bored
Start again.
--- March 29 2015
The cybernetic hypothesis is thus a political hypothesis, a new fable... [It] proposes that we conceive of biological, physical and social behavior as both fully programmed and also re-programmable.
Tiqqun, “L'Hypothèse cybernétique,” Tiqqun 2 (2001)