Through her own practice, Georgia Banks explores the reiterative act of constructing and archiving one’s own self in a contemporary digital landscape, drawing lines between gamification, pornography, reality television and the inevitability of death. 

Georgia Banks makes performance art even when you think she doesn't. Her most interesting work won’t happen until after she's dead - she hopes it’s good but will never know. Banks has been banned from Tinder, sued by the estate of Hannah Wilke, and awarded Miss Social Impact in a national beauty pageant. She would like to go viral, break a Guinness World Record, and be in an actual episode of Black Mirror instead of making her own. Georgia's never had a filling nor broken a bone (although she has been crucified) and once was convinced she'd accidentally sliced away a part of her labia during a performance (she hadn’t).

Image Credit: Kerry Leonard

This event is sponsored by the Bernadette Callery Archives Lecture Series.