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curatorial
Professor Sarah Perks is an interdisciplinary and international curator and artist whose practice combines curatorial methodologies, cultural leadership and creative applications.
Exhibitions, projects, films, writings, workshops, collectives and organisations are all created as a part of their collaborative explorations.
creative
Sarah uses relational curatorial strategies to build practice-based research, designing collaborative and future visioning projects for inclusive creative social action.
They use creative practices (contemporary art, performance, writing and filmmaking) with science or humanities (ecopsychology, quantum physics, artificial intelligence) to investigate equitable and non-hierarchical human and non-human partnerships.
themes
From desire to displacement, Sarah's themes are about communication and engagement across a fragmented world.
How we choose to connect and live might be our most important contribution to the world, continually exploring the intra, inter and social-political forces that shape these interactions.
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Teesside University
Forms of Circulation
Teesside University
Professor of Curating in the School of Arts and Creative Industries, Teesside University including leading the MIMA Research Unit. Co-designer and co-leader of MA Curating and Professional Doctorate in Curatorial and Creative Practice
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Forms of Circulation
Teesside University
Originally founded as an iterative platform conceived in 2012 by Dr Omar Kholeif, since then, it has expanded to include a rotating group of collaborators who work at the nexus of artistic culture, social justice, and conscious alliance
Forms of Circulation
Forms of Circulation
Freedom Women Collective
Paul Stewart and Sarah Perks collaborate through their artistic-curatorial practice, often workshop and film-based, bringing together their explorations from empathy to engagement, critical pedagogies to expanded curation, and knowledge exchange to karaoke
Freedom Women Collective
Freedom Women Collective
Freedom Women Collective
Freedom Women Collective are women who survived war, conflict and persecution: artists Arafa Gouda, Nisreen Barazi, Gaida Dirar, Shuke Halake Aeroro and Faisa Omar, with Lee Karen Stow and curator Sarah Perks
MIMA
Freedom Women Collective
The Ignorant Art Schools
An international art gallery and museum, we commission, collect and re-think modern and contemporary art. As the artistic heart of the School of Arts & Creative Industries at Teesside University, MIMA is dedicated to collaborative learning, research and innovation
The Ignorant Art Schools
Freedom Women Collective
The Ignorant Art Schools
The group are investigating the intersections of European alternative art pedagogy and recent forms of collective curatorial agency in Global Majority countries