Event
Block Universe
30 May 2016 – 05 Jun 2016
Block Universe
London, United Kingdom
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Erica Scourti, Personal Proxies
Event
Erica Scourti: Personal Proxies
30 May 2016
Regular hours
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
£7.50 / £5 + service fee
Address
- Strand
- WC2R 1LA
- London
- WC2R 1LA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 77a, 91 and 176, while the River Bus Service can be taken to Embankment and Savoy Piers.
- Temple, Covent Garden, Charing Cross and Embankment.
- Charing Cross, Waterloo and Blackfriars.
Event map
About
River Rooms, New Wing, Somerset House.
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. This 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. Personal Proxies humorously explores self-doubt, anxieties of legacy and self-improvement.
Assistants for this performance are Maria D Sotiropoulou, Skye Arundhati Thomas and Afra Zamara.
