Biography
Georgia Perkins (she/her) is a Teaching Fellow in Media Practices at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Her research interests include environmental feminism, queer studies, and visual cultures. Her current research is focused on how contemporary art practices translate molecular politics into sensible terms.
Georgia has previously taught in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths University of London, and was a Guest Lecturer for the HILMA Network for Gender Studies. She has hosted events at University of Westminster, Coventry University, and Goldsmiths University. She has worked on numerous curatorial projects including exhibitions and events with artists and writers including Anton Vidokle, Chila Kumari Burman, Daniela Ortiz, Jennifer Lewandowski, Marie Brett, Ofri Cnaani, The Partisan Social Club, Samuel Levak, Shen Xin, The White Pube at SIRIUS, Ireland. In 2022, she co-led the inaugural Summer School with Gregory Sholette, Miguel Amado, Carlos Garrido Castellano. She has also collaborated on international exhibitions with curator Miguel Amado at Rampa, Portugal and FRAC Pays de la Loire, France.
She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), as well as a core member of the Liquidity cohort and Counterfield collective. In 2020, Georgia co-organised the Liquid Bodies-Worlds Series with Bridget Crone for the Liquidity cohort, which included events by invited speakers Astrida Neimanis and Jamie Linton. She is currently a researcher connected to the Spatial Practices in Art and ArChitecture for Empathetic EXchange (SPACEX-Rise) EU Funded Project, and is undertaking secondments with the Royal College of Art, Coventry University, University of Northampton and Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic. Georgia regularly hosts events at cultural institutions, such as STATE Studio, Berlin; MayDay Rooms, London; The Mosaic Rooms, London; Exposed Arts Projects, London; House of Annetta, London; Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin; Rosalux, Berlin.
Georgia regularly contributes essays and reviews to academic journals, magazines, and art newspapers. Most recently, she has written for Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Arts Cabinet, and The Visual Artists’ News Sheet. She has given conference papers at The Photographers’ Gallery/London College of Communication; Université de Montréal; University of Dundee; London Science Fiction Research Community. Georgia has three book chapters to be published by Routledge and Sternberg Press in 2024 and 2025.
Read more about Georgia’s work on her website: georgiaperkins.co.uk