Sarah Perks

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Sarah Perks is an international curator and producer of contemporary visual art, independent film and engagement. She was Artistic Director for Visual Arts and Film of HOME, [1] the centre for international contemporary arts, theatre and film formed by the merger of Cornerhouse and the Library Theatre Company.

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Since 2022 she has worked with Artist Paul Alexander Stewart as Forms of Circulation on film and collaborative projects with IMT gallery, [2] London, The National Horizon Centre, Brent Biennial 2024, and Natural England. 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, knowledge exchange to karaoke. [3] Their latest film has received acclaim and multiple selections for film festivals globally including Busan experimental film festival, winning best short Documentary 2024 and also at London Film Festival, 2024 [4]

Currently a Professor of Curating at Teesside University, where, with Dr Paul Alexander Stewart, established Englands first Curator apprenticeship. [5]

Career

In January 2014, Perks curated Jamie Shovlin: Hiker Meat, [6] a solo exhibition that included the new commission Rough Cut, an installation and feature-length film produced in partnership with Toronto International Film Festival and in competition at 43rd Rotterdam International Film Festival.

In 2011, Perks founded Cornerhouse Artist Film, a UK specialist distributor of artist feature film, starting with the UK and Ireland theatrical release of Self Made, the directorial debut of Turner Prize winning artist Gillian Wearing.

Perks is a lecturer, presenter and published author in contemporary culture, lecturing in a range of subjects from creative industries to postcolonialism at institutions including the Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Manchester. She taught for several years at City College Manchester.

Through her career Perks has worked with a number of high-profile artists, including Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Rosa Barba, Gillian Wearing and David Shrigley. Curatorial credits also include the group show Anguish and Enthusiasm: What do you do with your revolution once you've got it??, Los Angeles performance and video artist Stanya Kahn: It’s Cool I’m Good.

Perks co-edited a special edition of Film International on film noir involving a range of artists, film makers and writers and is currently[ clarification needed ] developing a book on artist feature film. In 2009, she was a British Council Creative Entrepreneur Finalist for Visual Arts. [7]

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References

  1. "Sarah Perks". HOME. 17 December 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  2. "WORKSHOPS". IMT Gallery. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  3. Circulation, Forms of. "Forms of Circulation Paul Stewart & Sarah Perks". Forms of Circulation Paul Stewart & Sarah Perks. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  4. University, Teesside. "Researchers' short film selected for BFI London Film Festival | Media centre | Teesside University". www.tees.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  5. Richardson, Jim (5 March 2024). "Apprenticeships and expanding curatorial futures". MuseumNext. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  6. , Cornerhouse Jamie Shovlin Hiker Meat
  7. , British Council Creative Entrepreneur Finalist