NEXUS Publication Cross-Cultural Dialogue Between Taiwan and the Caribbean region   Foreword: Li-Chen Loh Essays: Sasha Dees, Nobuo Takamori, Ana Maria Hernandez Artists: Nadia Huggins, Natalia Lasalle-Morillo & Sofia Gallisa Muriente, Sharelly Emanuelson, Maksaens Denis, Christopher Cozier & Rodell Warner. MoCA Taipei, 113 pages / ISBN 978-626-96983-5-6 / Languages: Mandarin & English Price: TWD 850 [...]

I AM AI, the publication of the 27th anniversary of TNNUA is published this month. It includes photos and essays by visual artist Jorge Gonzales (Puerto Rico) and me about our residency in November 2023 as part of the program I AM AI at the University. Published by TNNUA // Language: Mandarin // Pages: 86 [...]

In her new book Entangled Species. Conversations on Contemporary Art in the Caribbean, Sasha Dees takes us on a personal journey, showcasing the depth and variety of artists and art communities in the Caribbean.   We follow writer and curator Sasha Dees on a journey in the Caribbean, where she explores the infrastructure for contemporary art. [...]

MAMMON Galerija Umjetnina, 2018, 105 pages / ISBN 978-9538167-16-4 / Languages: English & Croatian   We live in Capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 – 2018) [...]

My (revised) essay “Don’t believe the Hype” is published in BAT: Bridging Art + Text. The book has its launch on Friday December 1st in Copenhagen, Denmark. In May 2018 it was launched in Europe at the Berlin Artbook Fair. BAT: Bridging Art + Text looks into complex historic and current connections across the globe [...]

Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2016 is a large public art project organized and presented by JCAL, a community-based arts organization in Southeast Queens, NY. Workspaces & Windows 2016 is the fourth iteration of JamaicaFlux , successfully mounted in 2004, 2007, and 2010 by its current Curator/Project Director, Heng Gil Han. The nineteen commissioned artists [...]

Contemporary Artists from (part of) the Caribbean Imago Mundi - Luciano Benetton Collection Texts by Luciano Benetton, Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Tony Bechara, Sasha Dees (in english, italian and spanish) A collective story of contemporary Caribbean art through the work of a group of artists from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and Curaçao, including a [...]

CrimeJazz, celebrated it's 10th year anniversary with the publication CrimeJazz 10 years 1998 - 2008 in which the backstory of CrimeJazz and it's driving forces Sasha Dees and Philip Powel by Helen Powel; forward by Janny Donker, poems, lyrics and txt by a selection of featured (intern)national artists that blessed the CrimeJazz stage: Amiri Baraka, [...]