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Vivianne Njoku

Multimedia artist and educator based in Mexico City & Brooklyn, NY; professor in NYU Steinhardt's art education program, founder of SHIFT, and co-curator of theurbanX.org.

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PODCASTS

Sep 30, 2026

The Secret Life of TK Dutes

The Secret Life of TK Dutes

Ep 4: We In The Mix: Black Creatives in Mexico City

Sep 30 · 1h 5m

Keisha TK DutesHOST

7:26

What about you, Vee?

Vivianne NjokuGUEST

7:28

We have a very similar story.

Vivianne NjokuGUEST

7:29

I came into education in 2008, working with film, working with music, mostly working with black and brown youth as well.

Vivianne NjokuGUEST

7:38

I entered education through the radical lens.

Vivianne NjokuGUEST

7:40

I entered education looking at art as the only way that you can actually talk without talking.

Vivianne NjokuGUEST

7:47

Right.

Vivianne NjokuGUEST

7:47

So when I say art, I also said music and film, but visual art, media.

35 MINS LATER

Ron J. DutesGUEST

42:56

I'm always out here.

The Secret Life of TK Dutes

The Secret Life of TK Dutes

Preview: We in the Mix - Live from CDMX

Sep 1 · 8m

4:07

I was going to say similarly, I

Vivianne NjokuGUEST

4:08

feel like The three of us, I feel like any time I'm in spaces where we are curating or creating, it's multilingual, at the very least bilingual.

Vivianne NjokuGUEST

4:20

And it's intentionally so.

Vivianne NjokuGUEST

4:23

It's not like, oh, a few Mexicans showed up.

Vivianne NjokuGUEST

4:26

It's really critical that we also don't come to a place...

Vivianne NjokuGUEST

4:31

Let me also back up a second.

Vivianne NjokuGUEST

4:33

I don't fundamentally believe in nationalism.

Keisha TK DutesHOST

5:33

If you don't nod, I don't know you.