Black and Caribbean Influences on Globalization: Visual and Sonic Dialogue

With a transdisciplinary, experimental and collective approach, and interrelating the visual and sound, the research explores black and Caribbean influences in cultural globalisation. The proposal analyses how aesthetics and sonorities of black and Caribbean origin shape the artistic landscape of the Global North.

Led by Arelis Magdalena Benítez Rosario and Patri Vizcaíno Villalón


Arelis Magdalena Benítez Rosario

Arelis Benítez is a Dominican flute player, musicologist and cultural manager. Trained in art education, flute and musicology in institutions in the Dominican Republic, Valencia and Barcelona, she is currently working through several residencies and research into music and is developing the @caribbeancultureRD project, in which she researches and creates content about Caribbean culture, exploring identity and memory through music and its contexts.

Patri Vizcaíno Villalón

Patri Vizcaíno Villalón is a cartoonist, technician and audiovisual artist who likes to merge media to explore reflections. Her audiovisuals, visual art and writings address the indefinition, the fluctuating identity, the conglomeration of roots, the journey of gender, the dialogue between the individual and the collective, and how all this crosses us and shapes us. She loves dancing, an element she incorporates in her AV live shows and visual pieces.