24 Feb–14 Apr

Planetary Poetics | Artist talks Inas Halabi, Daniel Godínez Nivón, Victoria Mckenzie

Our temporary master’s program Planetary Poetics invites you to join them for three artist talks by Inas Halabi, Daniel Godínez Nivón, and Victoria Mckenzie.

Inas Halabi (b.1988, Palestine) is an artist/filmmaker whose practice examines how social and political forms of power are manifested and the impact of overlooked or suppressed histories on contemporary life. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (2024), Palestine Amsterdam Film Festival (2024), Galway Film Fleadh (2024), Brookline Arts Centre (solo show 2024), Tavros (2024), Reel Palestine Film Festival (2024), Luleå Biennial (group show 2024), Toronto Palestine Film Festival (2023), Sharjah Film Platform (2023), Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (2023), de Appel Amsterdam (solo show 2023), Beirut Art Centre (2023), Showroom London (solo show 2022), Europalia Festival, Brussels (2021), Silent Green Betonhalle, Berlin (2021), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2020), and Film at Lincoln Center, USA (2020). She lives and works between Palestine and the Netherlands.

Victoria McKenzie is an academic-activist, educator and artist. Her work focuses on the interconnections and entanglements of Earth where the realms of the individual, collective (human and more-than-human) and systems align. Trained in Research Architecture and Ecology, Victoria currently runs an architectural-research agency called ‘RRA’ Radical Research & Re-storying Agency which is informed by the question: “how can the pre-colonial past inform a decolonial future?”. Both Victoria’s research and practice are grounded in the ways in which building, being and communing align. She has worked with a variety of architectural practices and arts institutions such as ICE Institute for Creative Exchange, Cittadellarte, Triennale di Milano, Amisacho Restoracíon, Somerset House, Forensic Architecture, Adjaye Associates and Het Nieuwe Instituut—to connect art, design, politics and ecology in order to continuously communicate, dream and make new futures into existence. Currently, Victoria resides in Amsterdam, Netherlands where she teaches an MA program at Avans’ University’s MIVC St. Joost School of Art and Design for the ‘Ecology Futures’ pathway and the KABK in the MA for Non-linear Narratives.

Daniel Godínez Nivón is a visual artist from Mexico whose practice integrates social participation, education, and collective knowledge. He employs diverse methodologies, particularly tequio, a form of collective work rooted in Indigenous Mexican communities, primarily in Oaxaca. His current work explores the connection between dreaming and nature, investigating how our dreams—and those of other beings—can shape our understanding of environmental issues and nurture collective imagination. He studied at the Multiple Media Seminar at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the UNAM in Mexico and later completed a residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands (2021–2022). His work has been exhibited, screened, and performed internationally, including at the VanAbbe Museum and Stedelijk Museum (The Netherlands), Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland), Ashkal Alwan (Beirut), and Amant Foundation (New York). In 2022, he received the Prince Claus Fellows Award from the Prince Claus Fund and represented Mexico at the 23rd International Exhibition of the Milan Triennale, winning the 2nd Best Pavilion.

Programme

24 February
Artist talk with Inas Halabi
Location: Auditorium, 3rd Floor BC Building
Time: 17:00–19:00

24 March
Artist talk with Daniel Godínez Nivón
Location: Theory Stairs, FedLev Building
Time: 17:00–19:00

14 April
Artist talk with Victoria Mckenzie
Location: Theory Stairs, FedLev Building
Time: 17:00–19:00

Poster designers: Ksenia Gorokhova, Beatrice Cauda, Laura Segalà Ortoll