SPEAKING EVENTS/ TALKS & PERFORMANCES
TEDx Talk: “The Word for Sustainability is Decolonisation” Victoria McKenzie
November 18th, 2023
Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Climate change was never just about Weather. We are living in an entangled world in which everything is connected and the Earth thrives off of living relationships. What if architecture were to design for the living relationships of the Earth, communities, history, our embodiment and a different type of future grounded in the methods of the indigenous past?
Summer Camp for Radical Hope: Resting, Resisting, Re-building
July 3rd - 14th
Asten-Heusden, Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands
The Summer Camp for Radical Hope, is a call for designers, artists, cultural and social practitioners, and educators to enrich their creative practices and ongoing research in a collaborative, transdisciplinary manner. The 12-day research camp will take place on a farm – a site where theory and practice align – to allow participants to move through their own practices and rehearse new forms of relating, co-operating, working and living together within an ecological, political and sociological context.
Studium Generale - Bioremediation: Regenerative remedies for Toxic Realities
May 25th, 17.00-20.30
The Hague, NL
Victoria McKenzie and Leila Darwish in conversation on what it means to transform toxic realities through technologies of bioremediation.
Spring 2023 Graduate Lecture Series St. Joost Masters: Speaker, Victoria McKenzie
April 19th @ 13.35 - 15.50 CET.
Online and Den bosch, NL
Spring 2023 Graduate Lecture Series is part of the research seminar program at the Master Institute of Visual Cultures at St. Joost School of Art & Design, that brings together all our MA students from the departments Situated Design, Ecology Futures, Visual Arts and Post Contemporary Practice, in total some 60 students from all over the globe.
Talk/ Panel: Regenerative Design: What is the new paradigm based on co-creation and activistic coalitions
March 20th @ 20.00 CET
Amsterdam, NL
In this panel held by Pakhuis de Zwijger, we discuss and contemplate the question of: “What promising alternative systems and regenerative practices are already emerging around the world?”
Studium Generale: “THE SEEDS OF VANDANA SHIVA” with Vandana Shiva, Victoria McKenzie and Jasper Griepink
December 1st, 2022 @ 18.00 CET
KABK, The Hague, NL
In this talk, the prolific Earth activist Vandana Shiva discusses soil politics, neoliberalism, toxic corporations and what it means to fight for the rights of the Earth. Moderated by Victoria McKenzie and Jasper Griepink.
https://www.kabk.nl/agenda/studium-generale-the-seeds-of-vandana-shiva
Workshop at ‘Kindred Soils x KABK’, Victoria McKenzie, Jasper Griepink & Radical Roots
November 24, 2022
KABK, The Hague, NL
In this two part workshop, Victoria McKenzie and Jasper Griepink invite you to first tune into a meandering discussion about soil, the sacred and futurism. Secondly, we will engage and center in on how we come to know and conceptualise soil, being and future. We ask what it means to pair the terms ‘future’ and ‘soil’ whilst also considering a future for whom, and what do we mean when we say soil?
Talk/ lecture: “Raise your voice” symposium at DUTCH DESIGN WEEK
October 27, 2022
Eindhoven, NL
A thoughtful morning session on situated design and socially engaged art, critically examining their role in political, societal and environmental challenges, with talks from Pablo Calderon Salazar, Victoria Mckenzie and Miliaku Nwabueze.
https://www.baltanlaboratories.org/library/ryv-ddw-symposium
Lecture-performance at Piet Zwart Institute, Garden 404 project
June 3, 2022
Rotterdam, NL
Looking at it from a larger perspective, gardening is simultaneously a metaphor and a model for examining and (un)learning practices of environmental interventions. Learning with the Garden; Learning from the Land proposes to relate to this urban site of biologically and socially interdependent living beings through small-scale engagements and personal stories.
Lecture-performance at Zone2Source, School of Multispecies Knowledge, Amstelpark
May 30, 2022
Amsterdam, NL
The School explores new learning environments to rethink our relationship with other organisms and their impact on the way we live together. The School for MultiSpecies Knowledges responds to the increasing need for post-disciplinary and land-based pedagogical strategies that bridge theory and practice, enable learning communities and non-methodological tactics, and build on different levels of audience engagement.
https://zone2source.net/en/school-of-multispecies-knowledges-2/
EARTH FUNGUS BLESSINGS & ‘Is Soil Sacred’ talk with Jasper Griepink as part of Earthshrine ‘Sensing Sacred Soils’ MU Hybrid Art House.
May 29, 2022
Eindhoven, NL
As part of EARTHSHRINE, this two part talk and performance asks: how do we interrogate systems, ways of being and uses in which our partnership with soil is collaborative? How do we re-conceptualise the being of soil as a sacred, as multi-species spatiality? What are the ways of knowing, speaking and being with soil — storied ways, that demand new language and practice, in which care, compassion and love are grounded in a living and democratic system of biodiverse practice?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mu-eindhoven/albums/72177720299367205
Featured Article/ Interview for Fiber Festival: “Embodiment in Practice: the power of a transformative in-between”
February 22, 2022
In this article, there is a deepening of embodiment and remedial ways of living and thinking, through linking the performance of Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, who gave a spell-binding performance at FIBER 2021, to the panel ‘Melting Mind & Body’ with speakers Camille Barton and Victoria McKenzie.
Fiber Festival 2021 “Mutations” with Victoria McKenzie and Camille Barton
November 2021
Many of the ecological and social problems the world faces today can be traced back to thinking and acting in divisions and categorisations. Just as there's a separation between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ in Western thinking, there’s a clear separation between the ‘mind’ and the ‘body’ (also known as the mind-body dualism). In this session, we will talk to two change-makers who are active at the crossroads of embodied art, activism and the psyche. What can we learn from them in the fight for systems change and building new communities?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9RQnzyH6ow&list=PLehNszrNRa3CIGXicHDItrO2ScQjMRs8k&index=5