Mikey Georgeson born Bexhill-on-sea – snow muffled streets December 67. Scouse-diaspora deaf no hearing aid. Sits at front Catholic comp Crawley. Filling in text gaps with feeling – Human as experimental multi-organism.
“Love is Plasticity” (After Blake), Gouache on cotton thermals 2025
Later 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”.
And then 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.
Recent research collaboration with T. Sampson “The Struggle for [User] Experience (Minnesota Press)
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.
