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RESEARCH


Daniella on Luis Fernando Zapata's "Sarcófagos"  

Spring 2026
‘Educator Insight’ for “Dispossessions in the Americas” exhibition at Wrightwood 659






[Untitled] or The fear of incomprehensibility links together madness and writing

Winter 2025
Reading held at Centro Cultural de España as part of “método” curatorial program at MACPanamá


Paschōgraphia or How to Read Pain

Spring 2025
Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies
[Full Text]

  Final presentation for Visual and Critical Studies Undergraduate Symposium: “Fine Young Cannibals”
[Transcript]

“This thesis is a looping gesture. A never-ending spiral. A question I ask again and again, in slightly altered forms, across the body and through time. It’s a study in failure—of language, of systems, of medicine—to contain what hurts. Or perhaps more precisely, it is an attempt to describe pain not as a symptom, but as a structure. As pattern. As code. It begins with the autoimmune body; a body that turns on itself, misreads its own signals, and produces noise instead of clarity. From here, I move through mathematical metaphors, computational science, and etymological study to ask how we narrate the chronic, the invisible, the non-linear. What does it mean to speak of illness in recursion? To fold experiences into themselves, to repeat in variation, to iterate? Drawing from Koine Greek, programming languages, and the poetics of data, in this project I resist the closure of diagnosis and the authority of clinical objectivity. Instead, I construct a scaffold of metaphors—brittle, pliable, interlinked—to reimagine autoimmune illness as a system of meaning-making. Not a problem to be solved, but a landscape to be mapped. A condition to be read.

This is not a cure. It is my invitation to read pain otherwise.”





Wounded Women

Spring 2024
Final presentation for course in Visual and Critical Studies department: Wandering Uterus

«Vía un ángel cabe mí hacia el lado izquierdo en forma corporal, lo que no suelo ver sino por maravilla. [...] No era grande, sino pequeño, hermoso mucho, el rostro tan encendido que parecía de los ángeles muy subidos, que parecen todos se abrasan. Deben ser los que llaman Querubines [...]. Viale en las manos un dardo de oro largo, y al fin de el hierro me parecía tener un poco de fuego. Este me parecía meter por el corazón algunas veces, y que me llegaba a las entrañas. Al sacarle, me parecía las llevaba consigo y me dejaba toda abrasada en amor grande de Dios.»


http://carstuckgirls.com/

Spring 2024
Final group presentation/performance for course in Visual and Critical Studies department: Automatic for the People

Presented by: Daniella Ungo Berrío, Ahnali Tran, Lithe Ettawageshik, Lydia Burkett, and Clara Neisel




The M(O)ther as Monster

Summer 2023
Final presentation for course in Art Therapy department: Psychoanalytic and Anthropological Perspectives on Art and Childhood





Holy Wounds

Winter 2023
Notes for presentation at the Siena Art Institute for course in Art History department: Living the Past in the Present: The Art of Archive

Body Horror and Posthumanism

Fall 2022
Final presentation for course in Art & Technology / Sound Practices department: Brave N3w_B0d13s





The Social Life of Social Death

Fall 2022
Final presentation for course in Social Sciences department: On Black Matters