CV
Education
2019 - Present PhD Researcher in the Visual Cultures Department at Goldsmiths University of London
2017-18 MA Contemporary Art Theory, Goldsmiths University of London (Pass with Distinction).
2014-2017 BA History of Art, Goldsmiths University of London (First Class Honours).
Conferences
2024 ‘Electronic philosophies and Molecular Processes’ panel with Anthony Kroytor and Andrew Milward for the 'Productivity or process - what is the value of making?' stream at the Midlands Conference in Critical Thought (MCCT), Nottingham Trent University (April 2024)
2022 ‘Subatomic Documentation and Visual Cultures’ paper at the ‘Levels of Life: Photographing, Imaging and the Vertical Perspective’ conference at The Photographers’ Gallery/London College of Communication (June 2022)
2022 ‘(Inter)planetary Response-ability and Care: The Future of Aesthetic Designs through Ecological and Feminist thinking’ paper at the ‘Planetary Drifts’ conference at Université de Montréal with keynote speaker Dipesh Chakrabarty (April 2022)
2020 ‘Dizzying Swamp Protocols and Con-fusing Indeterminacy’ paper at the ‘Indeterminate Futures/The Future of Indeterminacy’ at University of Dundee with keynote speakers Karen Barad, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, Gregory Cajete, Leroy Little Bear, Sha Xin Wei, Vladimir Tasić. (November 2020)
2020 ‘Speculative F(r)ictions and Slimy Indeterminacy’ paper at the ‘Beyond Borders: Empires, Bodies, Science Fictions’ conference for the London Science Fiction Research Community with keynote speakers Dr. Nadine El-Enany and Florence Okoye. (September 2020)
Curatorial Projects
2024 ‘Spatial Media, Inhabitations and Relocations’ exhibition at The Winchester Gallery (16-26 May 2024)
Collaborative Projects with Miguel Amado (2021 - Present):
2023 ‘Ofri Cnaani: Leaking Lands’, co-produced between SIRIUS and Rampa, Porto (20 January - 18 March 2023)
2022 Samuel Levak and Jennifer Lewandowski ‘A Prayer of Progress in the Light’ at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork (28 April - 17 July 2022)
2022 ‘Une communauté imaginée’ at FRAC Pays de la Loire, France, with artists Sérgio Carronha, Mónica de Miranda, Musa paradisiaca and Rita Sobral Campos (19 March - 5 June 2022)
2022 Salomé Lamas ‘Gaia: What if the Meteorites Would Talk’ at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork (9 February - 24 April 2022)
2021 ‘Anton Vidokle: Citizens of the Cosmos’, co-produced between SIRIUS and Rampa, Porto (9 September - 16 October 2021)
2021 ‘Amanda Rice: Material and Immaterial Worlds’ at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork (June to September 2021)
Curatorial Fellow at SIRIUS, Cork, Ireland (2021- Present):
2023 ‘Fictional Reconfigurations (& Embodied Transformations)’ workshop series organised with Amanda Rice. Invited artists include Nina Davies, Becky Lyon and Jo Pester. (22nd February, 15th March and 19th April)
2022 ‘In Conversation with The White Pube’ event with Miguel Amado (10 December 2022)
2022 Inaugural SIRIUS Summer School on ‘Art and Politics’ with artist, writer, activist and Professor of studio art at Queens College, CUNY, Gregory Sholette (20 - 24 June 2022), co-delivering sessions with Miguel Amado and Carlos Garrido Castellano.
2021 - Present Exhibitions with Anton Vidokle, Amanda Rice, Holly Márie Parnell, The Partisan Social Club, Marie Brett, Fiona Kelly, Daniela Ortiz, Aikaterini Gegisian, Shen Xin, Tulapop Saenjaroen, Chila Kumari Singh Burman and Ofri Cnaani. Online SIRIUS Digital Programme with Aoife Desmond, Bindu Mehra, Karen Power, Samuel Levak, Jennifer Lewandowski, Salomé Lamas, Yurika Higashikawa, Aikaterini Gegisian, Ofri Cnaani and Gina Peyran-Tan.
2020 - Present ‘The Body in Algorithms’ virtual residency organised with Ashley Middleton from Zero Corners.
2020 ‘Digital Touch’ online group exhibition co-curated with Carlos Pinto, in collaboration with the online platform Conscious Isolation. (August 2020)
Publications
Book Chapter
2025 ‘Quantum Embodiment’ by Georgia Perkins in Revealing Posthuman Encounters in Performance, ed. Stefano Boselli and Sarah Lucie (London ; New York: Routledge, Forthcoming Publication in 2025).
2024 ‘Decomposing Wood: Instructions for Survival in the Scraps of Ruin and Collapse’ by Georgia Perkins and Becky Lyon in The Routledge Queer Death Studies Handbook, (London ; New York: Routledge, Forthcoming Publication in 2024)
2024 ‘Interplanetary Cemetery’ by Miguel Amado and Georgia Perkins in Anton Vidokle: Citizens of the Cosmos, ed. Miguel Amado (Berlin: Sternberg Press, Forthcoming Publication in 2024).
Book Reviews
2024 ‘Book Review: Silent Activism’, Art & the Public Sphere, Forthcoming Publication.
2022 ‘Book Review: Out of Touch’, Multimodality & Society, 2(3), 326–329. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795221113046
Journal Article
2023 ‘Inhuman Appetites and Mineral Becomings: Earthly Wit(h)nessing in Caitlin Berrigan’s Imaginary Explosions’ by Georgia Perkins and Callum Bradley, Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Issue 61 - Earthly Mattering, https://www.antennae.org.uk/ , ISBN: 978-1088257746 (August 2023)
Media: print, online
2023 ‘The Inaccessible Narrative’, Georgia Perkins’ interview with Bindu Mehra, Arts Cabinet, https://www.artscabinet.org/interviews (Summer 2023)
2023 ‘Toxicity’ in ‘Planet’ Research Group’s pamphlet contribution for the Earthwise project, RCA Publication, ISBN: 978-1-8383543-4-3 (May/June 2023)
2023 ‘Fictional Reconfigurations: Georgia Perkins Outlines a Recent Online Workshop Series with Amanda Rice’, The Visual Artists’ News Sheet (May/June 2023 issue)
2023 ‘Leaking Lands: Miguel Amado and Georgia Perkins Outline a Solo Show by Ofri Cnaani presented at RAMPA in coproduction with SIRIUS’, Miguel Amado and Georgia Perkins, The Visual Artists’ News Sheet (March/April 2023 issue)
2022 ‘Hyperconnected Modalities of Touch: Ofri Cnaani’s ‘Accidental Triggers’, The Paper Cork (December 2022) https://thepapercork.com/2022/12/13/hyperconnected-modalities-of-touch-ofri-cnaanis-accidental-triggersby-georgia-perkins/
2022 ‘The Activism of Art’, Miguel Amado and Georgia Perkins interview Gregory Sholette about his latest book, The Visual Artists’ News Sheet (September/October 2022 issue)
2020 ‘Digital Touch’, UCL In-Touch: Digital Touch Communication: Thinking Pieces (3 November 2020)
2020 ‘Dizziness’, E-Flux Reader (21 May 2020)
Associations and Funded Projects
2023 - Present International Association of Art Critics (AICA) Member
2022 - Present Spatial Practices in Art and ArChitecture for Empathetic EXchange (SPACEX) researcher, affiliated with the cultural organisation SIRIUS. Research secondments include the Royal College of Art, Coventry University and University of Northampton, where I am working with various researchers including Dr. Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Dr. Melanie Jordan and Dr. Andrew Hewitt. I am attached to the ‘Spaces of Coalescence’ project organised by Dr. Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Ludovica Fales.
Residencies and Research Groups
2024 - Present Ocean Justice Research Group at University of Southampton.
2023 - Present Member of the Sites & Situations Research Cluster at Royal College of Art.
2022-2023 Member of the ‘Planetary’ Postgraduate Research group that constitutes part of the RCA Earthwise project. The project is organised by Dr. Josephine Berry and Dr. Catherine Ferguson. Earthwise Publication and Exhibition at Beaconsfield Gallery (June/July 2023)
2022 Art and Politics - On Friendship and the Political Imaginary - University of Gothenburg Summer Course (audited) with Mick Wilson.
2022 ‘Five Bodies 2022: Entanglements’ Research Group at Nottingham Contemporary x Nottingham Trent University. (February-June 2022)
2021 - Present Squishy Collective. ‘Squishy Collective’ Exhibition at Metroland Cultures (25th November - 10th December 2023)
2020 - Present Counterfield Collective
2020 - Present Liquidity Cohort (CHASE-funded) - core member.
2020-2022 ‘Intelligence Debiased’ Research Group at Exposed Arts Projects, London. ‘Intelligence Debiased’ Exhibition (3rd - 26th November 2022)
Teaching
2024 Reviewer of PhD applications for South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (SWW DTP)
2023 - Present Teaching Fellow in the MA Programme on Media Practices in the Art & Media Technology Department at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton - Module Lead for Professional and Academic Skills 1 + 2, Strand Leader for Media and Ecology on the module Global Media 2, Personal Academic Tutor, Academic Integrity Officer, teaching the modules Global Media 1 + 2 and Critical Media Practice, and Final Project Dissertation Supervisor. (September 2023 - ongoing)
2022 - 2023 Visiting Lecturer in the MA Programme on Media Practices in the Art & Media Technology Department at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton - teaching on the modules Global Media 1 & 2, Critical Media Practice, Digital Cultures, Transmedia Storytelling, Professional and Academic Skills, Final Project Dissertations. Guest speaker for the module Media Arts and Emerging Tech. (May 2022 - September 2023)
2022 Guest Lecturer for the HILMA Network for Gender Studies (a cooperation network of Finnish Universities) - teaching on the Gender, Body, Water course for advanced undergraduate and MA students. Course organised by A Khodyreva (November 2022).
2021 - 2023 Tutor (BA History of Art) in the Visual Cultures Department at Goldsmiths University of London - teaching on the module Space and Time.
Academic Training
2023 Personal Academic Tutor Training at University of Southampton (October 2023)
2023 Academic Marking Training with Steven Sanderson at University of Southampton. (May 2023)
2018-2019 ‘Academic Practice’ module with Mary Claire Halvorson at Goldsmiths University.
Events/Talks/Workshops
2024 ‘Queer Compost’ Panel Discussion at the ‘‘Unnatural’ Nature 2: The Queerness of Compost’ exhibition at Filet Space, London (20th July 2024)
2024 ‘Image Ouverte’ event, Spaces of Coalescence: RCA and SPACEX-Rise Project, Paris (March 2024)
2023 ‘Tea Time with Georgia Perkins and Tiny Domingos: An Informal Conversation on Ecology, the Art of Shaping and Broken Materials’ at Rosalux, Berlin (18 November 2023)
2023 ‘Tellurian Surfaces and Core Fragments: Elena Damiani in conversation with Georgia Perkins’, artist talk at Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin (17 November 2023)
2023 ‘Feminine Futures: War | Oppression | Dystopia’ Event and Screening with Adrien Sina. Organised by Georgia Perkins at Goldsmiths University of London. The project’s previous iterations were at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Summerhall, Edinburgh, and The Courtauld, London. (13 June 2023). Funded by the Visual Cultures PhD Research Grant, Goldsmiths.
2023 ‘Res Nodus: In Conversation with Georgia Perkins and Ashley Middleton’ event, Exposed Arts Projects, London. (15 April 2023)
2023 ‘At the Water’s Edge - Responses to Molecular Biopolitics and the Polluted Aquatic Context’, SPACEX-Rise Visiting Researcher Talk Event with Andri Christofides, Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University. (8th February 2023)
2022 Between the Leaves: De/Compost Reading Group with Becky Lyon. Sessions hosted at MayDay Rooms, House of Annetta, The Mosaic Rooms, Goldsmiths University. (April - November 2022)
2022 Reading group on Deboleena Roy’s Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings and Life in the Lab (2018) for David Chandler’s Materialisms reading group at Westminster University of London. (March 2022)
2021 ‘Curious Minds #18’ workshop curated with Ashley Middleton on membrane structures, molecular flows and phenomenological transformation. With guest speakers artist-researcher Dominique Savitri Bonarjee and biochemist Swati Aggarwal, for the ArtScience Monthly Series by STATE Studio. (21 September 2021)
2021 ‘Subatomic Touch’, a workshop hosted as guest facilitator for Elastic Fiction’s ‘Soft Tissue’ Programme, School of Machines: Making and Make-Believe. (16 September - 13 October 2021)
2021 ‘Earthly Witnessing in Rock Formations’, a performance workshop organised with Callum Bradley for the Counterfield series ‘Playful Disruptions: Loopholes, Networks, Care.’ (20 May 2021)
2021 ‘Post-Pandemic, Post-Crisis… Under What Terms’, an online reading group series organised with Miguel Amado at SIRIUS. (April – August 2021)
2020 Liquidity Cohort Series #2 organised with, and cohort initiated by Dr Bridget Crone. The CHASE funded series included seminars and workshops with Ofri Cnaani, Jamie Linton, Ifor Duncan, Dominique Baron-Bonarjee, Lucy A. Sames, Kate Pickering, and Astrida Neimanis. (June-July 2020)
2020 ‘Dizzying Feeling of Touch’, an online performative reading group series organised with artist-researcher Ofri Cnaani in collaboration with curator Miguel Amado at SIRIUS. (April-May 2020)
2016 ‘Hyperstore at Banner Repeater’ Workshops at Banner Repeater with Ami Clarke and Hyperstore collective. (July 2016)