dani neira is an interdisciplinary researcher working across curation, sculpture, text, and book-making. Grounded in methodologies of care, collaboration, and gathering, their practice is invested in alternative and affective modes of knowledge production. Drawing on queer theory, cultural studies, and speculative fiction, Neira’s practice aims to generate slippery sites that both articulate and desire beyond our sociopolitical present. Their recent research has explored personal and cultural memory, mutable architectures, queer digital folklore, citational politics, and postnatural imaginations.

Neira holds a BA in Art History and Visual Studies from the University of Victoria, and is the co-founder of the collaborative curatorial/publishing project the Dirty Dishes Collective. They are currently based between Berlin and the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, Canada).