Amanta Scott
In 2000 Amanta created Arising Phoenix, a syncretic art installation featuring the dramatic assembly of a sound sculpture installation with percussion music played upon found objects, haunting vocalizations and movement.

Arising Phoenix featured at the 2001 Earth day celebrations at the Ilan Cultural Centre in Taiwan.

In 2002/3 Arising Phoenix toured extensively across Ontario to art galleries, festivals and schools and was presented by the Music Gallery in Toronto.
Arising Phoenix featured at the National Gallery of Canada in April 2004.
The artist's work Glove Forest began in 1998 at the Edmonton Art Gallery as an installation of gloves donated from visitors. From there it was exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum as a series of hanging glove trees with the continued donation of gloves from visitors.
In 2002 Glove Forest evolved to become an interactive surround sound audio/video and sculpture installation addressing loss, our environment, and accountability.

Glove Forest was exhibited at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Thunder Bay Art Gallery in 2002; and at the Art Gallery of Algoma in 2003.
In 1998/99 Dragon Tango and Tamashii no Kodama were exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum, Edmonton Art Gallery and Singapore International Arts Festival.
A short film on Dragon Tango commissioned by Bravo Arts Network garnered three Gemini Award nominations and won the 1999 Gemini Award for Best Cinematography.

career
Since 1985 Amanta has been creating Syncretic Art works integrating visual arts, music, theatre, movement, multimedia, mythology and contemporary archaeology.
In 2004 Amanta was commissioned to create a series of works as part of an art/recycling initiative utilizing discarded materials provided by Public Works & Government Services Canada and Correctional Service of Canada.

Entitled LockDown the art series features sculptures created with prison beds from Kingston Penitentiary for Women; door hardware, air vent diffusers, office dividers and other objects recycled from government buildings.
LockDown was exhibited at the Art Gallery of Algoma in May 2005.

Coupled with LockDown was an installation entitled 15 Minutes of Fame - an interactive installation wherein viewers were invited to juxtapose assorted objects with a prison bed to create personal artistic statements.
Where usually a visitor might spend an average of 80 seconds interacting with a work of art, 15 Minutes of Fame succeeded in engaging visitors for up to 30 minutes!
In 1994 the Government of Japan - Agency for Cultural Affairs honoured Amanta with an Artist Fellowship Award which enabled her to live in Japan and study Japanese culture, music, art, theatre and dance.
In 1995/6 Amanta Scott and collaborator David Tomlinson became the first Canadian artists to be honoured with an Artist Fellowship Award from the Japan Foundation.
This fellowship enabled Amanta to live in Japan for six months and create the syncretic art installation Dragon Tango and the textile work Tamashii no Kodama.
While in Japan, Ms. Scott collaborated with several Tokyo-based artists in a multi-disciplinary work presented at the Fuchu no Mori Gekijo Theatre in Tokyo. Entitled Breath of Dragons, the work featured prepared piano, percussion, voice, dance, theatre and mime.
© 2006 Amanta Scott
Revised: Mon, May 22, 2006