Valentina Desideri is a Provostial & CRACS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at New York University and CAPIm’s Junior Researcher at the Royal Institute of Art. She is also an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Theatre Studies at the Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa). She holds a PhD in Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), an MA in Fine Art (Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam) and a BA in Dance-Theatre (Laban, London).
Desideri explores art making as a form of study and study as a form of making art. She performs Fake Therapy and Political Therapy, and is one of the co-organisers of Performing Arts Forum in northern France. She speculates in writing with Stefano Harney, she engages in Poethical Readings, gathers Sensing Salons and Reading with Echo with Denise Ferreira da Silva, amongst many other collaborations.
She is currently rewriting her PhD dissertation “Studio Practice: Experiments in Objectless and Objectiveless Artmaking” for publication, as she continues to focus on study as a practice to (re)generate political imaginaries. In particular she is researching non-extractive infrastructures for study through the online platform EhChO.org.
https://kadist.org/people/valentina-desideri/
https://parsejournal.com/authors/valentina-desideri/
https://cmagazine.com/articles/a-political-ethical-existence-practice-in-conversation-with-valentina-desideri-and-denise-ferreira-da-silva
https://faketherapy.wordpress.com/about/