Georgia b. Smith

Georgia b. Smith has a background in dance and architectural fabrication. She was a former member of the dance company Leimay, premiering "Borders" at Brooklyn Academy of Music. Georgia b.'s “Polite Structures,” a performance in which dancers are augmented with custom prosthetics, has been staged in Berlin, Prague, and Amsterdam. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan. Her work was exhibited by the Flint Institute of Arts in 2024. Also in 2024 Georgia b. developed a collaborative body of work with Brecht Wright Gander for Design Miami. Georgia b. Smith and Zelda Smith’s collaborative work won Best in Show at Artificial Horizons, a robotic-art show at Collected Detroit, hosted by the Robotics Department at the University of Michigan. Georgia b Smith was most recently a visiting Artist at Lehigh University as well as SUNY Oneonta where she began to develop her lates collaboration with Zelda Smith.

Cavernous Bodies Description: Excerpted from Cavernous Bodies, this choreographic sequence shows a human performer dancing while wearing a synthetic organ that is donned in the manner of a prosthesis. The organ pulses and throbs. Air, actuated through a system of programming boards, valves, compressors and solenoids, forces internal cavities to rhythmically expand and contract. All this is visible, through luminous, gelatinous, transparent flesh. Composed in a blocky profile, it articulates both its artificiality and mechanistic origins while simultaneously suggesting an organicism outside the scope of human design. In Cavernous Bodies, a human assisted by synthetic biology must contend with a toxified environment. Sensuous and ominous, the choreography brings forward the tensions that define our relations with technology. We both make use of and are used by our devices. We are assisted by and dependent on them. This is one of various designs for a myriad of wearable organs we are invested to see come to fruition for various body types