Event overview
Georgina Starr is a British artist best known for her video, sound and performance artworks. She emerged in the early 1990s with complex works exploring fragile phenomena through audio, text and moving image.
With a focus on female identity, memory, alchemy and film history, she creates multi-layered theatrical events, sculptural installations, films and fictions. Whether playing a lonely teenager re-enacting a high school play (Frenchy, 1996), a nightclub singer with schizophrenia (The Hungry Brain, 1995), a visitor from another planet (Visit to a Small Planet, 1994), a lost silent movie star (THEDA, 2007–10), a ventriloquist or psychic medium, the female body and voice are always the focus—magically transforming and morphing as they perform.
Starr has exhibited widely over the last 30 years in galleries and museums both in the UK and internationally, from the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney and Tate Britain to Kunsthalle Zurich and Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Recent exhibitions include the sculpture/performance commission Moment Memory Monument presented at Palazzo Reale in Milan, a survey exhibition Hello. Come here. I want you. at Frac Franche-Comté and a new performance commission Androgynous Egg for Frieze Projects in 2017. Her latest film work Quarantaine (43mins) was commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella (London), The Hunterian (Glasgow), Art Fund (Moving Image Fund), Glasgow International and Leeds Art Gallery. The film premiered at Tramway as part of Glasgow International (Gi 2020) in June 2021 before travelling to Leeds Art Gallery and Pinksummer Contemporary in Genova in 2022. She was shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2021.
Dates & times
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| 25 Jan 2023 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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