ERIKA BALSOM – Guest curator, O.B.E.

Erika Balsom is co-curator of the exhibition Shoreline Movements, developed in the frame of the inquiry On Becoming Earthlings.

Erika Balsom is a reader in Film Studies at King’s College London, focusing on the fields of artists’ film and documentary. Mostly recently, she is the author of An Oceanic Feeling: Cinema and the Sea (2018) and the co-editor of the anthology Artists’ Moving Image in Britain since 1989 (2019). She is also the author of After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation (2017) and Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art (2013), and the co-editor of Documentary Across Disciplines (2016). In 2017, she was awarded a Leverhulme Prize and the Katherine Singer Kovacs essay award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies; in 2019, together with the artist Eric Baudelaire, she was awarded an UNDO fellowship from Union Docs. Her writing has appeared in publications including Artforume-flux journalGrey Room, and Cinema Scope.

Top image : Erika Balsom, Ph. Princetion University Film Studies.