Mangrove Intelligence - Ecologies of Attachment
Huniti Goldox, Angeliki Tzortzakaki

This lecture-performance introduces Mangrove Intelligence, a project exploring how ecological intelligence can help us rethink love and relationships. It proposes a shift from individualistic models of identity toward forms of attachment grounded in interdependence, reciprocity, and porousness. Drawing from ecological and attachment psychology, the work reflects on how our relationships—both to others and to ourselves—are shaped by the same forces that sustain mangrove ecosystems.

This event is organized in collaboration with Angeliki Tzortzakaki, curator of The Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, Melted for Love.

Huniti Goldox is the artist duo of Areej Huniti and Eliza Goldox. Their work investigates how political systems, infrastructures and histories of violence are inscribed in water, land and collective memory. They work with marginalised oral histories and mythologies as counter-languages that confront dominant narratives.

Their practice creates immersive, participatory digital environments that propose audiences not as mere spectators, but as active agents in negotiating histories, ecologies, and futures. Through films, digital re-enactments, 360-degree environments, installations, workshops, and interventions, they interrogate how space, material, and narrative produce relations of power and forms of resistance.

From a buried river in Amman to artificial lake landscapes in Leipzig, post-earthquake architectures in Albania, and Mediterranean coastlines, their projects trace the entanglement of human and more-than-human histories, revealing the tensions, fractures, and possibilities that shape our shared environments. Their work has been presented internationally, including at the Institute for Postnatural Studies, Madrid (2023); Hauser & Wirth, Menorca (2023); TBA Academy/Ocean Uni, Madrid (2022); Tirana Art Lab (2022); D21, Leipzig (2021); Sheffield Film Festival (2021); Biennale Mediterranea, San Marino (2021); SomoS Art House, Berlin (2020); SPARC*, Venice (2020); Darat al Funun, Amman (2019); MMAG Foundation, Amman (2019); and the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts.