BASEROOM 2B - FINE ART AND RESEARCH
EK Myerson
@ekmyerson  EK Myerson is an interdisciplinary artist & critic. EK investigates alchemy, Arab-Jewish histories & disposable archives, through film, text, sculpture, collage, curation, photography & painting. As a filmmaker, EK makes wearable sculptures & props, & performs in character & on flute. They work with gold leaf, acrylic, papier-mâché, leather, wax & plaster-casting.

EK collects & re-uses receipts & ephemera as surfaces for texts. EK terms their methodology ‘auto-friction’: a specifically trans engagement with self & materiality. EK is fascinated with trans illusion as creative practice.

EK has a PhD in medieval literature from Birkbeck College (2022) & shifted to practice-based research at the Derek Jarman Lab. Their film ‘submerged reliquary of a Kentish Saint’, made with Sophie Mei Birkin, was screened at the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image in 2023. Their work has appeared in publications including GLQ, Wasafiri, postmedieval, t’ART, The TLS. Their first book, The Desire for Syria in Medieval England, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.

TITLE: Still from the film Leger-De-Man
Dimensions variable; duration: 7 mins

Medium: Sony A7 iii camera


3 words related to your practice:
multimedia, narrative, premodern
@rcagraddipRCA Graduate Diploma September 2024