Jemma Desai

Jemma Desai is a writer, convener and artist working across film, performance and visual arts. Through video, poetry, performance writing and collage, her practice explores forms of gathering, assemblage and circulation: of voices, bodies, images, ideas and ways of knowing across difference. Drawing on decolonial, black feminist and abolitionist thought, she is interested in artistic form as both an aesthetic and embodied social practice, and in the conditions through which culture is made, shared and received. These questions underpin her practice-based doctoral research, which explores abolitionist praxis as form and infrastructure in cultural production.