Clareese Hill

Clareese Hill is a practice-based researcher. She explores the validity of the word "identity" through her perspective as an Afro-Caribbean American woman and her societal role projected on her to perform as a Black feminist academic. She has given performance lectures at Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, University of Sussex, CUNY Graduate Center, The Chicago Art Department, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn. In May 2020, she co-organized Occupying the In-Between, a day-long interactive art research platform that questioned the validity of knowledge production and the body disseminating the research. She has exhibited her research internationally in Chicago, New York, California, London, France, and cyberspace. Clareese was a 2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future fellow (Phase One). Clareese’s essay titled “A Survival Praxis Through Hood Feminism, Negritude, and Poetics" is published in the Architecture and Culture Journal published by Taylor and Francis Press. Her Ph.D. Research "The Heuristics of Post-Identity Phenomenology Through Digitally Mediated Disruptions" was published in THEOREM and Theory: Practice Journal produced by Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University in 2018, and her upcoming essay titled “If the Earth Spoke to You As A Black Woman” will be published in Antennae, the Journal of Nature and Culture. Clareese holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She is currently completing a practice-based research Ph.D. across the Art Research and Computing departments at Goldsmiths' College, University of London.