Parallel Lines

an ongoing series of photo-based encaustic paintings
by Amanta Scott

exploring the lines between the actual and the possible;
the inner and the outer world; imprisonment versus freedom; and choice as a defining moment in our lives.

Amanta took a prison bed around the city of Toronto and invited photographer John Davidson to document her in a series of live solo performance ‘happenings’ through digital photography.

These prints form the base upon which Amanta applied layers of encaustic (wax) paint to create an imagined, abstracted scenario, blurring the lines between painting and photography.

15 Minutes of Fame

an interactive syncretic art installation by Amanta Scott,
featured in ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche 2008,
curated by Wayne Baerwaldt

featuring: a bare prison bed; blanket, sheet & pillow; and a standard-issue prison suitcase containing assorted personal items

Visitors are invited to:

* open the suitcase; consider, select and arrange items upon and around the bed to create a new installation - a personal artistic statement about incarceration...

* present and discuss their installation with other visitors

* write about their installation in the Book of Fame

featured an encaustic sculpture, 120-dozen eggshells, new music,
three lead dancer/vocalists and a 35-voice choir.

conceived, costumed, composed & directed by Amanta Scott

performed by Anne-Marie Hood, Allison Cummings, Amanta Scott

and special guests:
Gary Carper, Tania Carter, Jim Montgomery,
Ed Oikawa, Ellen Skura, John Watkis, Phyllis Whyte

and featuring: The University Settlement Choir
conducted by Teodora Georgieva

Shellshock I

featured a pathway of broken eggshells,
an encaustic sculpture,
new music, voice and dance.

Created and directed by Amanta Scott;
workshopped with: Jessica Runge, Norma Araiza,
Anne-Marie Hood, Nancy Tokatlidis and Amanta Scott

Glove Forest

An interactive multi-media installation, addressing loss, our environment and accountability.

Glove Forest digital video collage
5 minute QuickTime video: 25.4 MB
projected on gallery wall or
shown on television monitor.

Glove Forest tour - Art Gallery of Algoma
50 second QuickTime video: 4.6 MB
(alt QuickTime video: 2.4 MB)
demonstrates the experience
of walking through the exhibition.

Arising Phoenix

Integrates the dramatic assembly of a sound sculpture installation with exciting percussion music played upon found objects, haunting vocalizations and movement.

Arising Phoenix
50 second Quick Time video
6 MB
or
3.15 MB

Tamashii no Kodama ~ Echoes of the Spirit

consists of thirty-six kimonos
constructed in four freestanding panels.

Dragon Tango

Two vibrantly colourful dragon sound sculptures: an eastern dragon and a western dragon; with dynamic drumming, sonorous bells and ethereal vocalizations.

Mixing the mysticism of the east with the mythology of the west Dragon Tango offers that rare opportunity for a leap of the imagination: a chance to see and touch "a real live dragon".

Dragon Tango : 22 MB
Gemini Award winning video; duration: 04:12:26

QuickTime video : 2.3 MB
30 second PSA

O Canada?!

An exploration of Canadian identity as seen through a map of Canada,
commissioned by the Canadian Trade Office in Taiwan.

Virago Project

Features four Goddess Sound Sculptures,
archetypal images of the multidimensional female.

SpiderWoman

Designed in the form of a giant spider web marking the four directions. SpiderWoman paralleled the Canadian Aboriginal spider-woman creation story with our present reshaping and potential destruction of the world.