Artist in residence in Umeå, 28 August—30 November 2025

My artistic practice interrogates technology as a means to reclaim and reconfigure our relationship with the body. I am interested in how speculative thinking, in dialogue with both technological and ecological frameworks, can deepen our understanding of selfhood, existence and interconnectedness.

Photo: Mohamed Kamal @by__kamal

Areej Huniti

In my collaborative work with Huniti Goldox, an artist duo focused on collective imagining and reimagining, we delve into water, mythology and the interrelation of natural elements to engage with both present-day realities and historical narratives. Over five years of research across diverse sites including Amman, Tunis, Albania, and Leipzig, our work has taken form through films, installations, and workshops that challenge dominant geopolitical narratives, positioning water bodies and landscapes as contested sites of resistance shaped by political systems, societal transitions and structural violence.

As part of Golo Besmlah, together with Noura Al Khasawneh, we worked on rehabilitating a public garden by reintroducing native species, alongside organising exhibitions and workshops that emphasise ecological regeneration. Currently we are involved in a project supporting food sovereignty in Gaza with the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature, as a way to confront the violent extraction of resources, land grabbing and the destruction of agricultural livelihoods.

During my time in Umeå I plan to explore speculative tools for navigating life in future ecologies. Central to this inquiry is the idea that technology and nature can co-evolve symbiotically. I seek to imagine this through a survival kit, an assemblage of practices, tools and rituals shaped not by deliverance from harm but by other ways of relating. Could such a kit be grounded in embodied sensing, in forms of perception that slip outside categories imposed by human logic?

My question is how we might prepare for the future without beginning from crisis. Could vibrations, noise, flicker, engraving or dream open thresholds where myth and life, birth and death coexist within the same frame? What happens when images emerge without consciousness of what they signify, when vision rests in a precognitive state?