Artist Erica Scourti: Self-technologies, deep-acting and resistance

In this fascinating discussion, artist Erica Scourti teaches Oriana what it's like to treat Twitter as if it's your potential boyfriend. Scourti also discusses the art of impersonal autobiography; the recalcitrance of old formats despite the invention of new media; mental health and technology; and the possiblity of resistance in the face of capitalist cooptation.

This interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's digital residency at Mimosa House Gallery. You can watch the original video here.

Oriana Fox is a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.

Erica Scourti is an artist and writer, based in Athens and London whose work mines the intersections of autobiography and collective experience through everyday media and in particular, social media and its algorithms. She has performed, exhibited and presented talks internationally, at High Line New York, Wellcome Collection, Kunsthalle Wien, Hayward Gallery, Munich Kunstverein, ICA London and EMST Athens, the 7th Athens Biennale: ECLIPSE and Survival Kit 13, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (2022). Her writing has been published in Spells (Ignota, 2018) and Fiction as Method (Sternberg, 2017) amongst others, and she guest-edited the Happy Hypocrite- Silver Bandage journal (2019).  She is undertaking a PhD in Goldsmiths’ Art Department, and is a Lecturer in BA Fine Art at Central St Martins.

Credits:
Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Introductory Voiceover by John Kilduff, aka Mr. Let's Paint
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Special Thanks to Tom Estes, Lara Perry, Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London

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