Erik Marnson erik-marnson.com

Educaon

2017 Interformat Symposium: Along Lines, Nida Art Colony, Lithuania 2014-2016 MFA Curang (with Disncon), Goldsmiths, University of London 2014 Oberhausen Seminar, 60th Internaonal Short Film Fesval Oberhausen 2013 Independent Curators Internaonal (ICI) Curatorial Intensive on Time-Based Media, New York 2012 LUX/ICA Biennial of the Moving Image Curatorial Workshop, London 2008-2009 Vtape Curatorial Incubator, Toronto 2000-2004 Honours BA (First Class) in Film and Media, Queen's University, Kingston

Employment

2016 Arts Catalyst, Nuclear Culture Project, London, Assistant Curator (Occasional) 2005-2014 Vtape, Video-Art Distributor/Gallery, Toronto, Submissions and Outreach Coordinator

Awards

2017 Inaugural Stuart Cro Foundaon Special Projects Award

Curatorial Projects/Acvies and Wring

2018 Its origins are indeterminate (Four Programme Screening Series) Whitechapel Gallery, London, March 16 + 17 (Supported by the inaugural Stuart Cro Foundaon Special Projects Award) Featuring: Arsts TBA.

2017 An Interview with a Neural Net (Text) Living in the Future, London, upcoming issue collaboraon with Terence Broad.

Tell me about the ones who sleep through storms: Films and Videos from the Balcs (Screening) Toronto Internaonal Film Fesval’s Wavelengths Series, December 10 Featuring: Daiva Tubutytė (Lithuania), Laura Toots (Estonia), Ieva Balode (Latvia), Ieva Epnere (Latvia), Gerda Paliušytė (Lithuania), Ieva Kraule (Latvia), Paul Kuimet (Estonia), Ulijona Odišarija (Lithuania), and Krisna Norman (Estonia).

Resng Transmissions / Eyes Above, Bodies Below / Nice night for a walk (Three screening programmes as exhibion) The Ryder Projects, London, July 5 – 23 (one programme per week) Featuring: Kathryn Elkin (UK), Wendy Geller (Canada), Su Hui-Yu (Taiwan), Deirdre Sargent (USA), Maha Maamoun (Egypt), Stephanie Comilang (Canada), Jenna Sutela (Finland), Daniel Cockburn (Canada), and Frank Heath (USA).

‘I’ Statements (Screening) LUX Arsts’ Moving Image, London, June 4 Featuring: Shelley Niro, Thirza Cuthand, Mike MacDonald, Wanda Nanibush, Rebecca Belmore and Paul Wong, Ehren Bear Witness Thomas, Danis Goulet, Dana Claxton, and Adam Garnet Jones (all from Canada).

pontypool-txt-advntr-sim.net (Online Project) Cosmos Carl – Plaorm Parasite, launched April 14 Collaboraon with Gailė Pranckūnaitė (Lithuania).

Distribuon, Digital Dilemmas, and Discoverability (Panel Parcipant) Internaonal Film Fesval Roerdam, January 28 Featuring: Fern Silva (USA), Brigia Burger-Utzer (Austria), Miguel Dias (Portugal), Wanda Vanderstoop (Canada).

2016 Portal Atop a Bus Stop — version II (Screening) Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) Cinema, Vilnius, November 26 Featuring: Kae Hare (UK), Beth Block (USA), Daniel Cockburn (Canada), Deirdre Logue (Canada), Claire Davies (UK), Emily Furneaux (UK), Maha Maamoun (Egypt), Morehshin Allahyari (Iran/USA), Paul Simon Richards (UK), Mary Helena Clark (USA), Jennet Thomas (UK), Michael Robinson (USA).

Nuclear Culture Source Book (Publicaon — Assistant Editor) Published by Black Dog Publishing in partnership with Bildmuseet and Arts Catalyst, September Edited by Ele Carpenter.

Autoencoding Blade Runner (Screening/Talk) Pando.EnclaveLab, London, August 17 Featuring: Terence Broad (UK).

Our Future is Elsewhere (MFA Curang Grad Exhibion) Goldsmiths, London, July 14 - 17

Like slow breathing, it seemed to emanate from inside the walls (Screening) LUX Arsts’ Moving Image, London, May 3 Featuring: Leslie Peters & Dara Gellman (Canada), Tan Pin Pin (Singapore), Jenny Perlin (USA), Graeme Arnfield (UK), Karen Cunningham (UK), Emily Wardill (UK), Steve Reinke (Canada), and Mark Aerial Waller (UK).

Queer Futures and World Building: Panel Discussion with Allyson Mitchell & Deirdre Logue Goldsmiths, London, May 3 Panel featuring: Deirdre Logue & Allyson Mitchell (Feminist Art Gallery, Toronto), Sara Ahmed (UK), Catherine Grant (UK), and Nazmia Jamal (UK). Co-chaired with: Nella Aarne (Finland).

Hers is Sll a Dank Cave: Crawling Towards a Queer Horizon (Screening) Presented by Cinenova and Electra at DIY Space for London, May 1 Featuring: Deirdre Logue & Allyson Mitchell (Canada). Programmed with: Nella Aarne (Finland), Charloe Procter (UK), and Irene Revell (UK).

Closer to home than you could’ve ever imagined (Screening) Chalton Gallery, London, March 23 Featuring: Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Baersby, Leslie Supnet, Thirza Cuthand, John Forget, Mike Hoolboom, Deirdre Logue, and Steve Reinke (all from Canada).

2015 Portal Atop a Bus Stop — version I (Screening) Red Barn Project Space, University of California Santa Barbara, July 13 Featuring: Avril Corroon (Ireland), Jesse McLean (USA), Sam Smith (Australia), Paul Simon Richards (UK), Jean-Paul Kelly (Canada), Laura Kraning (USA), and Sasha Litvintseva (UK).

The Waterfall Flows Up (Exhibion), Red Barn Project Space, University of California Santa Barbara, July 8 - 29 Featuring: Rachel McRae (Canada), Anna Ze (Germany), and Beatrice Gibson (UK).

The Years Without Light (Screening/Performance Event) Instute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, May 13 Featuring: Rachel McRae (Canada), Michael Lucid (USA), and Margaret Haines (Canada).

Arst Talk: Change of Posion (Moderator) at Videonale 15: Call of the Wild (Video Art Biennial) Videonale.15, Kunstmuseum Bonn, February 27 Featuring: Ayla Pierrot Arendt (Germany), Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz (Switzerland/Germany), and Vika Kirchenbauer (Germany). 2014 Goldsmiths’ MFA Curang Gallery Tour: ICA Bloomberg New Contemporaries Instute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, December 11 Tour lead with: Tamar Hemmes, Chrisan Lübbert, and Jessica Ziskind.

Videonale.15: Call of the Wild, Video Art Biennial (Selecon Jury) Videonale.15, Kunstmuseum Bonn, February 27 - April 19, 2015 Featuring: 38 internaonal arsts. Selecon jury took place: July 14 - 18, 2014.

2013 The fallacy of misplaces concreteness (Solo Exhibion) XIT-RM project Space, Art Gallery of Mississauga, July 18 - Sept 7 Featuring: Alice Wang (Canada/USA/China).

An Interview with Alice Wang, in Slippery Contours exhibion catalogue (text) Galleri Detroit, Stockholm

Muscle Memory, essay on Dani Levanthal in exhibion catalogue (text) Now as a Bird, Now as a Worm, Now as a Plant, ed. by Mike Hoolboom Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, NY

It’s going through you like an X-ray: The work of Jesse McLean (Screening & Talk) Pleasure Dome & No Reading Aer the Internet, Toronto, March 15 - 16 Featuring: Jesse McLean (USA).

Arriving Without Leaving (guaranteed happy ending) (Skype Performance & Talk) Art Metropole, Toronto & Fogo Arts, Fogo Island, March 27 Produced with co-editor of The Instute of Immaterialism, Cressida Kocienski. Featuring: Lucy Pawlak (UK).

The most powerful image is the figure-eight (Screening & Lecture) York University, Toronto, February 13 Featuring: Gil Leung (UK), Jesse McLean (USA), Cressida Kocienski (UK/Canada), Jean-Paul Kelly (Canada), Tonje Alice Madsen (Norway).

2012 This Story Begins and Ends With Us (Solo Exhibion) A Space Gallery, Toronto, June 2 - July 14 Co-curated with Cheyanne Turions. Featuring: Basma Alsharif (USA/Palesne).

Memorie di uno Smemorato (Memoirs of an Amnesiac) (Screening) 25th Images Fesval, Toronto, April 16 Featuring: Laida Lertxundi (Spain/USA), Tonje Alice Madsen (Norway), Mike Gibisser (USA), Maki Satake (Japan), Agnieszka Polska (Poland/Germany), and Beatrice Gibson (UK). Ready for Exncon (Screening) Pleasure Dome, Toronto, December 21 Featuring: Mel Hogan (Canada), Leslie Supnet (Canada), Laura Kraning (USA), Aaron Oldenburg (USA), and Amie Siegel (USA). Bruce Conner’s Crossroads followed screening, programmed by Eli Horwa.

Magic Kingdoms (Screening) Pleasure Dome, Toronto, December 7 Featuring: Marn Arnold (Austria), Pilvi Takala (Finland), Elodie Pong (Switzerland), Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács (Netherlands), Elin Magnusson (Sweden), Joshua Thorson (USA).

Blind Understanding, part of Carried Away: Vtape Staff Play Favourites (Screening on Demand) Vtape, Toronto, Dec 3 - Jan 13 Featuring: Saskia Holmkvist (Sweden).

2011 Wee Requiems (Screening) Rendezvous with Madness Film Fesval, Toronto, November 6 Co-curated with Deirdre Logue. Preceded by an illustrated arst talk by Jenn E. Norton. Featuring: Leslie Supnet, Julieta Maria, Jenn E. Norton, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Baersby, Isabelle Hayeur, Barry Doupé, Michael Stecky, and Steve Reinke (all from Canada).

Community Acon Center (Screening) Pleasure Dome & Feminist Art Gallery (FAG), Toronto, September 24 Co-curated with collecve members Julia Paoli, Carly Whitefield, Kevin Hegge. In collaboraon with Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell (Feminist Art Gallery). Featuring: A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner (USA).

Transformaon in the Land of Enchantment (Screening) Pleasure Dome, Toronto, July 9 Co-curated with Carly Whitefield. Featuring: Isabell Spengler (Germany).

2010 Dissonant States (Screening) Rendezvous with Madness Film Fesval, Toronto, November 9 Co-curated with Deirdre Logue. Featuring: Freya Haenberger (Germany), Dani Leventhal (USA), Kathy High (USA), Dena DeCola & Karin E. Wandner (USA), and Laida Lertxundi (Spain/USA).

Approaches to Experimental Media (Screening/Talk) Rendezvous with Madness Film Fesval, Toronto, November 9 Co-curated with Deirdre Logue. Featuring: Aleesa Cohene, Heather Keung, Philip Jonlin Lee, and Steve Reinke (all from Canada). The Unlucky Sailor: recent video by Gary Kibbins (Screening) Pleasure Dome, Toronto, November 6 Featuring: Gary Kibbins (Canada).

Stay the Same Never Change (Screening) Pleasure Dome, Toronto, October 9 Co-curated with Andrea Cooper. Featuring: Laurel Nakadate (USA).

What Manner of Person Art Thou? (Screening) Pleasure Dome, Toronto, March 6 Featuring: Erin Cosgrove (USA).

Don’t Talk to Strangers (Exhibion) Pleasure Dome & Trinity Square Video, Toronto, February 6 - March 6 Co-curated with Jon Davies and Jean-Paul Kelly. Featuring: Harry Dodge (USA) and Alison S.M. Kobayashi (Canada/USA).

2009 A Space Fundraiser Screening A Space Gallery, Toronto, July 17 Featuring: Penny Lane (USA), Thirza Cuthand (Canada), Sabrina Moella (Canada), Dennis Day (Canada), Paul Wong (Canada), and Andrew James Paterson (Canada).

Where the Wild Things Are (Exhibion) Curatorial Incubator v.6: "The Dark Arts: Magic and Intuion" Vtape, Toronto, January 30 - February 19 Featuring: Tseng Yu-Chin (Taiwan), Dena DeCola & Karin E. Wandner (USA), and Mary J. Daniel (Canada).

2008 Live to Tell (Screening) Art Gallery of Windsor, July 16 Featuring: Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (Canada), Dana Inkster (Canada), Deirdre Logue (Canada), Aleesa Cohene (Canada), Jim Verburg (Canada), Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon (Canada), Wayne Yung (Canada/Germany), Alison S. M. Kobayashi (Canada), and Aurora Reinhard (Finland).

To See the Enormous Night Arise (Performance Event) Pleasure Dome, Toronto, November 9 Featuring: Gale Allen (Canada), Irene Loughlin (Canada), Mikiki (Canada), and Naufús Ramirez-Figueroa (Guatemala/Canada).

A Lower World: Excesses and Extremes in Film and Video (Exhibion) Pleasure Dome at Pixel Gallery, Toronto, October 4 - November 29 Co-curated with Andrea Cooper, Jon Davies, Linda Feesey and Jean-Paul Kelly. Featuring: Michael Bell-Smith (USA), Marcus Coates (UK), Nathalie Djurberg (Sweden), Julian Hoeber (USA), Takeshi Murata (USA), Laurel Nakadate (USA) and Mungo Thomson (USA).

Many of My Belief are False, new videos by Gary Kibbins (Screening) Pleasure Dome, Toronto, March 1 Featuring: Gary Kibbins (Canada).

2007 Everything in my Life, Everything in Yours: video works by Sara Angelucci (Screening & Talk) Art Star 3: Video Art Biennale at SAW Gallery, Oawa, October Featuring: Sara Angelucci (Canada).

On Creaturely Life (Screening) Pleasure Dome at Aurora Fesval, Norwich, UK, November Co-curated with Jon Davies, Linda Feesey and Jean-Paul Kelly. Featuring: Stephen Andrews (Canada), Jeremy Bailey (Canada), Daniel Barrow (Canada), Chrisna Bale (Canada), Barry Doupé (Canada), Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Baersby (Canada), Meessoo Lee (Canada), Amy Lockhart (Canada), Michèle Stanley (Canada) and Ryan Trecarn (USA).

2005 Images Fesval Student Program (Screening) Images Fesval, Toronto, April Co-curated with Chris Gardiner, Heesoo Kim, Erika Loic, and Natasha Pike.

Juries

2015 Videonale.15 Biennial of Video Art, Selecon Jury, Kunstmuseum Bonn

2011 South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC), Monitor 7, New South Asian Short Film & Video, Toronto

2010 Vtape, Curatorial Incubator parcipant selecon, Toronto

2008 Images Fesval, Canadian Screening Commiee, Toronto

imagineNATIVE Media Arts Fesval, Cynthia Lickers-Sage Award for Emerging Talent, Toronto

Teaching/Mentoring Acvies

2016 Central Saint Marns (UAL)/LUX MRES Arsts’ Moving Image (London), invited by Lucy Reynolds, presented on Vtape and Toronto Arst-Run-Culture/Media Arts

2013 York University Cinema and Media Studies (Toronto), invited by Tess Takahashi, presented on curang arsts’ moving image

2011 Workman Arts, Intro to Experimental Media (Toronto), for 6 parcipants

Vtape Curatorial Incubator Fellowship (Toronto), editor for parcipant Ananya Ohri’s essay

2010 Vtape Curatorial Incubator (Toronto), editor for parcipant Jennifer Chan’s essay

2008 Inside Out Queer Youth Digital Video Project (Toronto), producon mentor to Alison Leigh

Board of Directors and Collecves

2011-2013 Instute of Immaterialism, Co-editor with Cressida Kocienski, Toronto

2008-2012 A Space Gallery, Vice President of Board of Directors, Toronto

2006-2014 Pleasure Dome, Board Member and President (from March 2010-2014), Toronto

Residencies

2016 Curatorial Residency (November), Rupert, Vilnius

2016 Curatorial Exchange to Athens, NEON and Whitechapel Gallery

2013 Independent Curators Internaonal (ICI) Curatorial Intensive on Time-Based Media, New York