Valentina Desideri is a junior researcher at CAPIm at the Royal Academy of the Arts. She is also an affiliated researcher with Critical Racial AntiColonial Studies (CRACS) Co-Lab at New York University and with the Centre for Theatre Studies at the Lisbon University (ULisboa). She holds a PhD in Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), a Master of Fine Art (Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam) and a Bachelor of Arts in Dance-Theatre (Laban, London).
Desideri explores artmaking 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-organizers of the Performing Arts Forum in northern France. She has long-standing collaborations writing with Stefano Harney, has developed Poethical Readings, the Sensing Salon and now Reading with Echo with Denise Ferreira da Silva, among many other projects.
She is currently working on re-writing her doctoral dissertation “Studio Practice: Experiments in Objectless and Objectiveless Artmaking” for publication, as she continues to focus on study as a collaborative practice of political imagination.