2023 Princeton Hodder Fellowship Application – Please Scroll Down for VideosErrantry (Excerpt)Multi-Channel Video Installation with sound and sculpture | 2021 | Duration: 11 minsErrantry (2021): Named after Édouard Glissant’s theory, Errantry is centered on the polyphonic rhythms of coastal space, the Caribbean sea, and the life sustained by it in a non-linear narrative that raises questions about time, labor, environmental degradation and the ongoingness of colonialism.The Memory Held within Water: Jean Claude Saintilus | documenta fifteen (:90 Excerpt)Jun 18 – Sept 25. 2022 Kassel, Germany.The Memory Held within Water The Memory Held within Water is a site-specific, multi-sensory installation in the vestry of the St. Kunigundis Church, on the occasion of documenta fifteen. The installation comprises a two-channel video with text and sound as well as selection of liturgical objects found in the church, selected and installed in the space. The film is inspired by Haitian sculptor, Jean Claude Saintilus’ story about the ancient water well in his yard in Grand Rue, Port Au-Prince, that connects him to his ancestors and notions of home.Sycorax_videostyle.01 (composite)(2023)sub–marine at Baxter CCNYTaking as a starting point an assertion by Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite that says, “the unity is submarine,” Benjamin’s work resists the notion of the Caribbean as a fractured region divided by language and nation state borders. The work instead sees the Caribbean as expansive, relational, and interconnected over multiple temporalities, transgressing colonial divisions. The presence of the sea is implied throughout the show, as Benjamin examines the region and its history, reimagining colonial narratives as well as meditating on interconnected futures.