Guest Speaker: Jessie Scott
Artist Talk
Jessie Scott
Abstract: In this artist talk, Jessie will give an overview of her art practice, which has included collaborations and collectives, artist publications and solo video installation. She will also discuss several recent projects associated with her PhD research project: Forgotten But Not Gone: A video art project examining video library culture as a creative tool, focusing on the artistic community of Melbourne. This is a video art project which synthesises social/participatory and video art methods to explore and reflect upon the significance of VHS and video lending libraries in relation to artistic communities in Melbourne. It centres on a handful of significant independent and institutional libraries, and artists, as a focus to this inquiry. The works range from video art works and installations, to participatory live works and an artist publication, and in this talk, Scott suggests that the video shop potentially has lessons to offer about access and engagement with relation to art.
About: Jessie Scott is an independent video artist, writer and programmer working in Narrm (Melbourne) on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. She is a founding member of audiovisual art collective Tape Projects, and co-directed and founded the inaugural Channels Video Art Festival in 2013. She is currently completing a PhD in art at RMIT University and raising two children.