Géraldine Gourbe is a Professor of Art Theory at Ecole Supérieure d'Art Annecy Agglomeration (2010-2014), was a lecturer at Sciences Po (Institut d'Etudes Politiques) in Paris, and is a visiting professor at the University of Metz. Gourbe is a researcher at the scientific laboratory FAAAM/CREA Nanterre University/Paris Grand-Ouest from which she obtained her PhD in Philosophy in 2008, granted by the French Cultural Ministry, on the continental political philosophic concepts of being together and living together articulated with the art history of feminist art performance in Los Angeles from the end of the 1960s to the 1980s. A scholar in critical and visual studies, she specializes in queer and postcolonial theory. She is currently writing a book, Kaprow, Californien ou l'inservitude volontaire, on the West Coast feminist influence on Allan Kaprow's work, pedagogy and life published by Fama collection (directed by Xavier Douroux). She is also working on a curatorial research program for In the Canyon, Revise the Canon for the Art Center Villa Arson in Nice for Summer 2016.