The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 2 - E. Scourti

In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work. In the second of these Sessions, Juliet talks to Athens-born, London-based artist and writer E. Scourti about the recent UCU strikes in higher education, and especially art colleges, the politics of freelance life, the mediation of emotion through technology, experimental approaches to memoir and the representation of subjectivity, and their translations of works by Greek poet and actor Katerina Gogou (1940-1993). A full list of references for the programme can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and are available to $3 subscribers.