Sarah Perks

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  curator and artist     

current projects

Sarah Perks

Sarah PerksSarah PerksSarah PerksSarah Perks

  curator and artist     

current projects

profile

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. 

links

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

events

9 - 20 October 2024

BFI London Film Festival

London

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9 - 20 October 2024

BFI London Film Festival

Presenting Forms of Circulation #1 (with Paul Stewart) at the BFI London Film Festival 🎉🎉🎉 you can still get tickets here. We are in the ...

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London

5 - 6 October 2024

Slow Film Festival

Waltham Forest

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5 - 6 October 2024

Slow Film Festival

Presenting Forms of Circulation #1 (with Paul Stewart) plus Q&A at the Slow Film Festival on the weekend of 5 – 6 Oct 2024 at Good Shepherd ...

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Waltham Forest

30 August - 1 September 2024

Braziers International Film Festival

Braziers Park

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30 August - 1 September 2024

Braziers International Film Festival

Presenting Forms of Circulation #1 (with Paul Stewart) at the 6th Braziers International Film Festival will be held from Aug 30 – Sept 1, 20...

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Braziers Park

8 June - 9 June 2024

Losing the Plot (Star and Shadow Film Retreat)

Hexham

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8 June - 9 June 2024

Losing the Plot (Star and Shadow Film Retreat)

Presented Seal Rave and Forms of Circulation #1 at Losing the Plot film retreat. Find out more: https://formsofcirculation.com/film

Hexham

January - April 2024

Exhibition: The Scale of Things

Cooper Gallery, Dundee

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January - April 2024

Exhibition: The Scale of Things

Three moving image works consider relations between humans and non-humans forming an exploration through history, intimacy and spirituality....

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Cooper Gallery, Dundee

More Events

video

David Lynch Q&A

Recording of Q&A as co-curator of David Lynch: My Head is Disconnected at Manchester International Festival

Es Devlin Screen Talk

Host of Screen Talk with acclaimed designer Es Devlin for LFF Expanded, the immersive art strand of the BFI London Film Festival

Freedom Women Collective

All about Tomorrow, our commission and exhibition in 2023

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about Sarah Perks

past

Sarah was Artistic Director at HOME and Cornerhouse in Manchester, collaborating with international artists, curators and filmmakers including David Lynch, Rosa Barba, Phil Collins, Rachel Maclean and Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige. Groundbreaking group exhibitions included La Movida, Safe, The Return of Memory, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things and Imitation of Life. They were also Experimenta programmer for BFI London Film Festival, chair of Islington Mill Foundation and have written, produced and curated over 100 books, films and exhibitions. They became one of the UK's youngest female Professors at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2014.  

present

Sarah Perks is Professor of Curating in the School of Arts and Creative Industries at Teesside University / MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art). They are working on a multiple interdisciplinary research projects, and co-leading England's only and first MA Curating apprenticeship.

future

There will be exhibitions, books, films and a range of practice-based collective endeavours going forward. 2024 will see the launch of an MBA Cultural and Creative Leader apprenticeship. Everything will probably happen all at once. 

contact

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Or send me an email via the University or via studio@formsofcirculation.com 

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