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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LinkedIn ÅRHUS FEMINIST COLLECTIVE RESIDENCY
In 2022, I was invited as part of 'mother tongues' to participate in a residency in Aarhus hosted by Århus Feminist Collective and rum46, where we explored collaborative practice and experimental approaches to the archive. We had the opportunity to meet other artists and collectives, share practices, and reflect on ours.
The residency culminated in a final workshop, 'How Not to End the Story', held at Moesgård Forest. Inspired by ideas from the texts 'Emergent Strategy' by Adrienne Maree Brown and 'Is Life a Cabaret? A Living Archive of the Other?' by Mama Alto and Sue McKemmis, the workshop invited participants to a nature walk to explore ways of introducing intention, change and adaptability into our lives through the embodied experience of a living archive of the forest. Followed by a picnic on the beach.
Århus Feminist Collective is a reading group that organises workshops, talks and film screenings, focusing on the everyday ways in which feminist action can manifest itself, using discussion and community to build confidence, knowledge and awareness. The collective collaborates closely with its partner exhibition space rum46
Rum46 is a volunteer-run, non-profit exhibition space that has functioned as an independent platform for contemporary art in the heart of Aarhus since 1995.