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Biography
Dzifa Peters is a German-Ghanaian visual artist and researcher. She studied Fine Arts with focus on sculpture and installation at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, as well as Postgraduate Media Arts at Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) with focus on photography and installation. She completed her doctorate on Afrodiasporic identities and visual representation within the Ph.D. program in Culture Studies at The Lisbon Consortium at Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon, in a joint degree with Justus-Liebig Universität and the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture in Giessen (GCSC). Dzifa Peters is a junior researcher at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC), and a research fellow at the Postdoc-Fellowship Program in Integral Human Development at Cados, Católica Doctoral School, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where she currently works on photography, memory and Afrodiasporic Identities in the context of postmigration in Portugal. Her research fields include postcolonial and decolonial studies, Black studies, migration studies, media studies, memory studies, performativity studies, visual culture studies, and arts-based research. In her artistic practice, Dzifa Peters uses photography, photomontage, sound and video, texts and installations. Her work is project and process oriented, and incorporates aspects of territory, globalization, migration and post- and decolonial discourses. As an artist who grew up in two different cultures (Germany and Ghana), she increasingly uses autobiographical material in an autofictional manner to negotiate socio-collective topics. She also includes art-based research into her scientific work by using hybrid methods in which her artistic practice becomes part of knowledge production and scientific endeavors.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Master
External positions
Visiting Doctoral Researcher, Justus Liebig University Giessen
2022 → …
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Integral Human Development in the Portuguese context. A post-doctoral fellowship program
Hanenberg, P. (Project Coordinator), Ubach Trindade, R. (Project Manager), Barros, C. (Fellow), Minga, E. (Fellow), Abalroado, T. (Fellow), Pereira, A. (Fellow), d'Araújo, M. A. (Fellow), Martins, H. (Fellow), Carvalho, C. S. (Fellow), Santos, M. I. (Fellow), Romeiro, J. (Fellow), Wiórko, A. (Fellow), Koncz, L. (Fellow), Fernandes, S. (Fellow), Jesus, A. P. (Fellow), Silva, D. (Fellow), Peters, D. (Fellow), Silva, E. (Fellow), Cardoso, E. P. (Fellow), Franco, S. G. (Fellow) & Noronha, E. C. (Fellow)
1/09/21 → 31/12/27
Project: Other
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Places of sanctuary in the artistic work of Liz Johnson Artur
Peters, D., Feb 2023, In: The February Journal. 1-2, p. 272-288 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Excavating the archive: the artistic work of Omar Victor Diop
Peters, D., 2022, (In preparation) Memory Studies Association Africa Regional Chapter: Annual Conference 2021.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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The polyphonic voices of postmigration
Peters, D., 24 Oct 2022, In: Kult_online. 66, 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book review › peer-review
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Nuno Nunes-Ferreira: reach one hundred
Peters, D. & Koncz, L., 2019, Portions of Share: 4 Artists and 3 Artists’ Books. Santos, L. (ed.). Universidade Católica PortuguesaResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Prizes
Activities
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GCSC - International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (External organisation)
Peters, D. (Member)
2022 → 2023Activity: Membership › Membership of association
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Camouflage as a Principle of Coexistence and Agency
Peters, D. (Speaker)
Mar 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Excavating the Archive: The Artistic Work of Omar Victor Diop
Peters, D. (Speaker)
2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Independence, Resistance and the Postcolonial Invention of Self
Peters, D. (Speaker)
20 Nov 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Spectral Identities and Photographic Tropes
Peters, D. (Speaker)
2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Thesis
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Tropes of polarity: visual representation and afrodiasporic identities
Peters, D. (Student), Gil, I. M. D. O. C. (Supervisor) & Basseler, M. (Co-Supervisor), 10 Sept 2024Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis