Associate teaching staff

Diana Georgiou is a writer and curator. She was the founder and co-director of the non-profit arts organisation CUNTemporary (2012-2021). Her recent co-curated project ‘EcoFutures’ (2019) focused on the ongoing ecological and environmental crisis from a queer, feminist and decolonial perspective, drawing together 70 artists, activists and theorists across seven venues with the support of 10 partner organisations.

She has curated exhibitions and public programmes in London for Furtherfield Gallery, ICA, Showroom Gallery, Guest Projects and Peltz Gallery amongst others. Attentive to the sonic resonances of narrative and poetry, her textual work takes the form of recordings and performative live readings. Her debut novel ‘Other Reflexes’ (2022), is forthcoming with Book Works.

Georgiou holds a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London, in which she employed feminist psychoanalytic theories and feminist philosophies to examine the distinction between writing about art and art-writing, as well as the effects that the latter has both on ethics and subjectivity.

Camilla Palestra is a curator and researcher concerned with multidisciplinary and collaborative practices that critically engage with urgent issues of our contemporary society, in connection to the socio-political environment and its diversity.

She has more than fifteen-year experience in curating and developing research-led projects for museums, galleries, higher education institutions, including the Venice Biennale, Fashion Space Gallery, Devi Art Foundation, Royal Academy of Arts London, and MART museum. Camilla has worked on solo exhibitions and commissioned projects with established and emerging artists, including Lucy + Jorge Orta, Shezad Dawood, Rainer Ganhal, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Annie-Marie Akussah, Hanae Utamura, among others. She is currently working as Curatorial Associate at the University of the Arts London.

Camilla is an Associate Lecturer at the University for the Creative Arts and held teaching positions at the London College of Fashion and Central Saint Martins (UAL). She received a MA Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Arts London and was awarded the Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Camilla is currently a doctoral researcher in the Advanced Practices programme in the Visual Culture Department at Goldsmiths, University of London.

(Communal) Researcher, organiser, curator, and writer invested in the questions on the political aesthetics of self-organisation, namely the tensions between the institutive, the radical, and the communal that drive self-organised resistances. Doctoral researcher and Convenor at the Advanced Practices programme, department of Visual Cultures.

Vaida collectively runs independent spaces, organisations, and assemblies and is Editor-in-Chief and Head of organisation at Artnews. Assistant Editor of a publication, 'Paths to Autonomy' (2022), coming out with Minor Compositions.