Born Bexhill-on-sea – snow muffled streets December 67. Scouse-diaspora deaf no hearing aid. Sits at front Catholic comp Crawley. Muffled voices -Filling in gaps – Becoming human as experimental multi-organism. Artist.
Mikey Georgeson is internationally acclaimed for using song and performance to situate interdisciplinary art. His phrase ‘love is plasticity’ (theme for a year long exhibition in Coimbra University) emerged as a song lyric. He cites his father’s bedtime folk ballads as the trigger for his conviction that meaning is inside the event called song.
Mikey has created critically acclaimed and uniquely innovative keynote speeches in collaboration with critical theorist Tony Sampson. He helped shape the theory of “fictioning” at the Bath Spa University conference with his speech as Konfessor Kimey Peckpo. He is currently collaborating with Prof. Sampson on the book The Struggle for [user] Experience (Minnesota Press), which draws on Mikey’s in-depth exploration of William Blake’s radical advocacy of aesthetic experience.
Recent research collaboration with T. Sampson “The Struggle for [User] Experience (Minnesota Press)
Enemy of Crisp Synthesis
Descended from a ring leader in the Tonypandy miners’ uprising, Mikey has, like William Blake, celebrated art’s potential for dissent. A life long hearing loss, he feels shielded him from the fixed concepts of alienating control. Like his hero, Blake (see skin suit above), he makes art as an aesthetic experience.
The Milieu or space of Song is how he thinks of the event of meaning art offers. He likens its dynamic potential to the brain stem-cell repair of birdsong. Having spent a kaleidoscopic time inside the pop industry in the late 20th century, he remains loyal to the truth of making-up, collective ritual and weaving fabrication and concept.
Biography continued
Chelsea school of art. Neo-romantic training under matriarch Susan Einzig dear friend of Jonny Minton “art for art sake money for god’s sake and gin for fucks sake”.
Failed RCA interview leads to Miraculous Brighton sojourn unexpected persona emerges. Supernatural as natural.
Accidental Vessel for dead magician and pop star performance artist. Banned from Radio One for refusing to reveal real name in live interview.
Fast forward exhibits Dopamine Molecule of intuition John Moore’s Liverpool.
Sings Georgian post-Soviet lore Shakespeare Theatre Gdansk.
Five year doctorate Aesthetic Machines.
Dr Mikey performance keynote presenter – fiction ontological truth.
Art as bio-synaptic event. Making it up as we go along.
myKey is an artist using the full range of their capacities: painting, singing, making, constructing, recording, filming, writing, performing and collaborating.
Song as ritual technology and event allows us to perceive the region with ourselves listening as a part of the region.
Their award winning song-writing workshops have been with Critical Practice (Chelsea), The Royal Standard Liverpool, Inspiral London artists’ group, Festival of Georgian culture Gdansk, Inside Inside Istanbul artists’ group, Summer School for the study of Affect Milersville University and UEL Electives Programme .
They curate the annual Sensorium exhibition as part of the Affect and Social Media conference at the University of East London, which continued in virtual form this year. Featuring their performance keynote Dr Who and The Nonentity created with professor Tony Sampson.
