Sarah Perks is an international curator who has spent two decades making exhibitions behave more like events: a historic statue of Engels shipped from Ukraine and raised in a Manchester square, David Lynch’s first UK solo exhibition conceived with the director in his Los Angeles studio, an MIT robot growing cabbages in a contemporary art gallery, an art party unfolding in over 100 locations at once. None of it was made alone. Her relational curatorial strategy, the conviction that exhibitions and creative works are made with people, not simply for them, has been built through long creative partnerships with artists including Phil Collins, Rosa Barba, Rachel Maclean, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige and Noor Afshan Mirza & Brad Butler. She has worked across the UK, Europe, the US, Canada, Mexico, China, Hong Kong and Japan, and with fellow curators and writers, including Omar Kholeif, her collaborator across projects from HOME to Sternberg Press’s imagine/otherwise series. That same instinct for exchange runs through her work on stage, in conversation with everyone from David Lynch and Es Devlin to Viggo Mortensen and Kevin Jerome Everson. As a curator-artist and filmmaker she works in the collaborative practice Forms of Circulation (with Paul Stewart), whose 16mm films, made with scientists, schoolchildren, football fans and a colony of dancing seals, explore perception and connection and have screened internationally, including selection for BFI London Film Festival.