bio
As an interdisciplinary artist based between Stockholm and London.
Geraldine participates specifically at the intersections of site, material/ecological realignment and otherness regarding the relationships between magics/folklore/myth, the female body and our more than human world.
This manifests
as performance, sculptural installation, short film, soundscapes and
participatory workshops.
Drawing
from initial psychogeographic based work which was concerned with
archetypes of the wild, sexuality and transgression in relation to
carnival/ritual, place and event, Hudson’s practice has gradually
evolved to acknowledge her own relationship to esoteric and supressed knowledges, as experiential research rather than
anthropological study, in this way she questions the notion of
consensus reality, blurring the lines between accepted fact and fiction when placed in context of post colonial revision.
By eschewing a capitalist methodology and instead opting to work intuitively through storytelling and scripting, she co-opts pilgrimage and ritual as a healing conduit for reacquaintance with land, spirit and the more than human world.
She is currently pursuing the MFA at Goldsmiths where her research is concerned, respectively with herstories which arise through various devotional land pilgrimages - alongside a metaphysical banishing of the enclosures and spells of reclamation for wrongs enacted against women during the burning times in 16/17th C England.
Working on location with these sites and sourcing the raw material whilst bringing historical plant lore into the contemporary, lays the foundation for transformative manifestation, an acknowledgement and recognition of injustices against othered women.
As a
curator Geraldine has been engaged in various organisations whilst
running her own experimental art space, Konstapoteket in
Stockholm between 2011 and 2014. Alonside curating exhibitions at Husby Konsthall in Stockholm.
More recently she has been an
active member and secretary of Fylkingen (arts organisation for new music and performance art) in Stockholm, alongside
organising the occasional art/experimental research event.
She is the current producer/curator of the interdisciplinary symposium
Conjuring Creativity - Art & the Esoteric, which she co founded in 2018 with Dr. Per Faxneld.
November 2024