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Scott (UK)
curator Ottica TV
co-curators Paul Malone
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Steven
Born in Newport, South Wales. Great Britain. Lives and works in London,
Great Britain. Education: Nottingham Trent University and Middlesex University.
www.steven-scott.co.uk
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SCREENIGS:
2010 The Thing, GAS Station Gallery Berlin, DE (group) / Interstice,
Testbed1 Project Space, London, UK (group) / 2009 Souvenirs from Earth,
Pan-European Cable TV channel screenings / 2008 Duration Reveals
Extension, AugustArt Gallery, London (solo) / 2007 ArtSway Open 07,
3 x 2. Parfitt Galery, London, UK (group) / 2006 Welsh International
Eisteddfod, Cardiff, UK (group) / OutVideo 06, RU (group) /
Athens International Video Art Festival, GR (group)
A real time video of a decaying neon sign depicting the word ‘Electricity’ is projected
onto a wall of a disused electricity substation. The sign flickers as it dies transforming
the visual word into a physical object, no longer able to transmit its meaning in a purely
linguistic form.
Electric city, a Modulated Image takes the re-iteration / re-utteration of words
and the subsequent decay or evolution of their meaning, and focuses on electricity
as the enabler of the infinite manifestations of these spoken and visualised word/images
across international borders.
Here the temporal element introduced into the word image via the sign’s flicker,
the repetition and the re-presentation of the word in this video, attempts a visual
equivalent to the ‘stutter’ and as such resonates with Deleuze’s notion of stuttered
or vibrated words as an intensifier of the ‘foreignness’ in ones own language.
Meanings become extended to their limit and ultimately the spoken word is reducing
to an abstract sound, the visual word to a silent glyph.
Steven Scott
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Electric city. A Modulated Image, 2010
video projection installation
FOT. S. Scott