Marina Georgiou
Marina is a London-based archivist, curator and workshop facilitator, working at the intersection of DIY, feminist and decolonial practices and the archival. She holds an MA in Archive and Records Management from UCL (2023), an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths (2012), and a BA in Fine Art from Middlesex University (2009).
She is a member of the Peckham-based and trans-inclusive Feminist Library Collections group. She has also been a founding member of mother tongues (2018-2023), a research-led project applying decolonial, feminist and queer pedagogies in archival practice, language and translation, and has been a member of the ‘migrated archives’ working group at UCL (2022-2024), raising awareness of displaced archives resulting from Britain’s colonial history.
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Future Archiving, Sessions, SPEL, Nicosia, 2023
Invited by Cerebral Gym to facilitate workshops on imagining a queer and feminist Cypriot archive as part of Sessions, a programme held at the State Gallery of Contemporary Art - SPEL in Nicosia.
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F(r)ictions x Left Bank, Tbilisi, 2023
With Anuka Ramischwili-Schäfer, I co-curated a short film programme as part of a collaboration between F(r)ictions and Leftbank in Tbilisi, featuring artist films whose practices are connected to West Asia and the Mediterranean.
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Århus Feminist Collective residency, Aarhus, 2022
With mother tongues, I participated in a residency in Aarhus hosted by Århus Feminist Collective and rum46, where we explored collaborative practice and experimental approaches to the archive, culminating in the workshop ‘How Not to End the Story’ held at Moesgård Forest.
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Translation Parties, mother tongues
From 2018 - 2023, I was a founding member of mother tongues, through which I co-developed the ‘Translation Parties’ series hosted across libraries, galleries and archives, such as The Mosaic Rooms, Southwark Park Galleries and MayDay Rooms.
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