Systems Architect, COO
Experimental Arts Gathering

The Bombay Beach Biennale (BBB) is a renegade celebration of art, music, and philosophy that takes place on the shores of the Salton Sea. It was founded in 2015 to create a public arts event untethered from the commercial art world of galleries, museums, and art fairs. It was driven by the impulse to channel creativity as a means to garner widespread attention to the deep ecological crisis that is the Salton Sea - one largely ignored by the federal and California state government, and whose history is strangely unknown to many California residents. 

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BBB produces a multidisciplinary public arts gathering that hosts thousands of guests. We work with over 150 participants to produce a performances, art installations, gallery shows, a philosophy conference, a film festival, opera & ballet, and more. ​2025 marks my fourth year with BBB. Formally, my title is COO, though I’ve chosen “Systems Architect” after developing my position inside a nascent organization to reflect the essence of my work: the development of new systems that sit at the nexus of art, politics, mutual aid, and community care.
 

During my time working for BBB, I initiated the LLC process and developed what was a diffuse group of collaborators into a functional organization. I expanded our team of paid producers and organizers, facilitated nonprofit sponsorship with Fractured Atlas, and doubled our fundraising annually while establishing a Patreon that, at its peak, generated $4,000 in monthly income. In 2024, we launched our formal artist grant program and awarded $40k in grants in our first year. Read about BBB 2024: White Gold on PBS. 

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"If you ask Dulcinée, what is emerging in Bombay Beach among the Martians and the missionaries, the snowbirds and the solarpunks, the artists and the anarchists, is nothing less than a work of art itself, a social sculpture. The 20th century fluxist artist Joseph Beuys coined this term, claiming that, “Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the death line.” In this telling, Bombay Beach has become a site for radical reimaginings, a petri dish for politics, and a toxic wasteland that is being terraformed for the future dreams of its inhabitants. Here, every being is an artist. These are the goals of the social sculpture that is Bombay Beach, as set out in 2024 by the Biennale’s Systems Architect."​ - Grant Slater, Founder of VOSS (Voice of the Salton Sea, Imperial Valley's first radio station), in response to a lecture given at Mars College in 2024 titled "I Like Bombay Beach & Bombay Beach Likes Me."  

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If you want to know more about my work with BBB, reach out to dulcinee@bombaybeachbiennale.org. 

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