Career
She is Professor of Philosophy and Fine Art and Director of the International Centre for Fine Art Research (CFAR) at Birmingham School of Art (Birmingham City University). Born in New York, Golding lived in Toronto where she was the President of the Board of Directors of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre from 1983 to 1995. She was a regular contributor to The Body Politic, a monthly magazine that played a key role in the LGBT community in Canada.
Golding writes under the pen names Johnny Golding and Johnny de Philosophy
She has published several books including Gramsci"s Democratic Theory, The Eight Technologies of Otherness, and On the Verge of Photography. She produces public lectures presented in the form of sound/image installations, sometimes in collaboration with Stephen Kennedy.
Her current work investigates the radical nature of matter in art and philosophy, with specific links to the sciences.