United Kingdom
United Kingdom
GIULIA CASALINI is an independent curator-artist and transfeminist community organiser based in London. She has just completed a PhD analysing queer-trans-feminist live art from transnational perspectives, in an attempt to decentre Euro-Anglo-American aesthetic canons and discourses. Her writing practice is based on embodied responses to the artists’ works and uses a ‘deep sensing’ method to understand their singular perspectives beyond linguistic articulations. As a curator, her methods have been reflecting upon the ethics of care and co-creation, with translocal and transnational queer community-building as her objective. Her practice spans from institutional to alternative spaces, with a focus on performance, audience participation and engagements across diverse communities.
Selected curatorial projects: Burned House Horizon (Mimosa House, London, 2025) #WIP (Queer Art Projects, online, 2020); EcoFutures (multi-venue festival, London, 2019); Still Burning (Konsthalle, Varberg, 2019); Transitional States (touring, including Peltz Gallery, London and CCCB, Barcelona, 2017-18); Transformer (Richard Saltoun, London, 2014). Recent talks/workshops: Tate (UK, 2022); Bitef Festival (Belgrade, Serbia, 2021); Centrale Fies (Dro, Italy, 2021). She has published in both peer-reviewed academic journals (e.g. Contemporary Theatre Review, Technoethics, Media-N), art magazines (e.g. La Quadriennale di Roma, MACRO Roma) and more popular outlets (e.g. Tinig UK). She has been co-founder and artistic director of the non-profit arts organisation Arts Feminism Queer (aka CUNTemporary, 2012-2021), and the founder of Archivio Queer Italia (2014-2017). She sits on the advisory board of Mimosa House gallery (London) and is a Live Art Associate UK.
