A new commission for Block Universe, London's Performance Art Festival.

Erica Scourti's mytho-biographic performance explores the automation of personality, drawing on ancient Greek tales of the underworld and the notion of human and technological proxies. The performance traces a speculative situation of the artist being fired from her own job and replaced by automated affective agents and human assistants, questioning the role of efficiency-enhancers in an economy that valorises the authentic presence of the artist. The performance humorously explores self-doubt, anxieties of legacy and self-improvement.

Erica Scourti was born in Athens, Greece and is now based in London and Athens. She has exhibited, performed and presented talks recently at Microscope Gallery, New York, The
Photographers’ Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Munich Kunstverein, EMST Athens, ICA, David Roberts Art Foundation, Southbank Centre, South London Gallery and the Royal College of Art. Current shows include Big Bang Data at Somerset House, The Practice of Theories at Wysing Arts Centre and Dark Archives, a solo commission at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. In 2015 Erica was in residence at Wysing Arts Centre and the White Building, London, and she is a Near Now Fellow 2015/6.