Dees is an independent producer, curator and writer in visual art, performing arts, literature and film. She owns a production &management company (1998) workin with artists and art-organizations internationally; producing and programming projects, exchanges and collaborations, scouting talent for venues, festivals and foundations and co-founded, with Philip Powel, the not-for-profit John106 (2003). In 2010 she initiated and curated an international residency for multiple disciplines in Amsterdam, Ailsa
Anastatia participated in, transferred to art collective Vinger in 2014. She has been a resident in the region, and participant in visitor programs of international residencies as Art Omi, Residency Unlimited and NARS in New York. Dees’ currently works on a book mapping the art infrastructure in the region based on her research from November 2017 until May 2019 on 14 (of 17 visited countries in the Caribbean (insular), in part made possible by Mondriaan Fonds, Marguerite de Rooy,
UniArte (Curacao), Nina Jurna (Rio), and Ateliers’89 (Aruba). www.sashadees.com