Marina Georgiou
Marina is a London-based archivist, curator and workshop facilitator, working at the intersection of DIY, feminist and decolonial practices and the archival. She holds an MA in Archive and Records Management from UCL (2023), an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths (2012), and a BA in Fine Art from Middlesex University (2009).
She is a member of the Peckham-based and trans-inclusive Feminist Library Collections group. She has also been a founding member of mother tongues (2018-2023), a research-led project applying decolonial, feminist and queer pedagogies in archival practice, language and translation, and has been a member of the ‘migrated archives’ working group at UCL (2022-2024), raising awareness of displaced archives resulting from Britain’s colonial history.
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LinkedIn TRANSLATION PARTIES, MOTHER TONGUES, 2018-2023
From 2018 - 2023, I was a founding member of mother tongues, through which I co-developed the ‘Translation Parties’ series hosted across libraries, galleries and archives. While the format of each Translation Parties would adapt to its specific environments in which they were hosted, their main intention was to collectively interrogate collections using DIY Translation as a method of archival research. The workshops fostered communal and embodied forms of inquiry, creating spaces to learn together through discussion and reflection on language’s impact on personal and collective knowledge.
mother tongues published two zines alongside their translation parties: Archival Futures, created in conjunction with a workshop with The Mosaic Rooms, and Translation Party, co-created with participants during their inaugural Translation Party at The Feminist Library in 2018.
mother tongues is a transdisciplinary, research-led project that applied decolonial, feminist and queer pedagogies to explore language and identity. Its practice responded to language’s impact on personal and collective empowerment, aiming to democratise archival collections and knowledge production. mother tongues was formed collaboratively by
Vania Gonzalvez, Kaya Birch-Skerritt and Marina Georgiou.