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DALIDA MARÍA BENFIELD

Dalida María Benfield is an artist-researcher, filmmaker and theorist (Panama/US/Finland). Her current work is focused on mobilising decolonial feminist aesthetics (see here) towards pluriversal world-creation (see here). This takes many forms, including convening people to collectively think and make together (see here, here and here); research and writing that builds theory with and through global contemporary artists (see here, here, and here); experiments in critical pedagogy and popular education (see here and here); and speculative video art (see here), installation, performance and experimental writing (see here and here). Her video, films and installations have exhibited internationally, and her writing has been published in English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

 

Dalida María Benfield is, centrally, a curator, educator and organiser. In 2017, she co-founded the Center for Arts, Design and Social Research (CAD+SR). Since its founding in 2017, CAD+SR has established itself as a new form of arts research institute. Untethered to a fixed campus, global in mission and scope, CAD+SR is relevant to a world in which centres of influence are increasingly fluid, and ways of comprehending art, history and knowledge must be seismically shifted. Attuned to planetarity, CAD+SR convenes, supports and collaborates with international, trans-disciplinary practitioners in imagining—and enacting—responses to urgent challenges.

 

Dalida María Benfield holds an MFA in video/film (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), and a PhD in ethnic studies with designated emphasis in women, gender and sexuality studies (UC Berkeley).

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