Dayna Casey (Boorloo AU/NL, 1988) creates essayistic publications and mixed-media installations.

Currently I am collaborating with Eline Benjaminsen on the project Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas (Spector Books, 2025) where we unravel financial slang and its etymological histories, revealing the absurd (super)natural ‘fictions’ that shape our worldly ecology.* We have been thinking through cli-fi-fi, or climate finance fiction, as a genre.

Another ongoing research is Fertile Imaginaries. This work examines reproduction by exploring bodily boundaries, kinship, property logics, extraction, authorship, and the right-wing exploitation of doubt. It was most recently developed during my Jan van Eyck post-graduate residency (From this Mine of Mine to Yours, 2022), and earlier at the Dutch Art Institute (A Vessel for 92% Water, 2019).


I work on commissions as an editor and publication designer, tutor master’s students at the Critical Inquiry Lab, and advise on funding applications and publications, serving on the advisory committee of the Stimuleringsfonds. My MA was in art praxis and critical theory at the Dutch Art Institute (2020).

info(at)daynacasey.com
+31 (0)6 4164 7070
Based in The Hague, NL


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  • * This project is expanding Sami Hammana's initial Geofinancial Lexicon (Edited with Jack Clarke, Abstract Supply, 2021) and is supported by CNA Luxemburg, Stroom Den Haag, Stimuleringsfonds, Art Council Norway, Jan van Eyck Academie, Radius CCA.
    • RECENT
  • Exhibition at Oslo Kunstforening, Norway, Video work and prints, with Eline Benjaminsen. Oslo, Nov – Jan, 2025.
  • Participant at Perdu writing program. Amsterdam, 2024 – 2025.
  • Received funding support from Stroom Pro Research. The Hague, 2025.
  • Lecture on Research and Theory in Editorial Practices, KABK. The Hague, 2025.
  • Lecture on Editing as a Visual Genre. Critical Inquiry Lab, MA Students. Eindhoven, 2025.
  • Artist talk at Oslo Kunstforening with Eline Benjaminsen. The Flora – Hedging (a.k.a. hedge heist). Oslo, Jan, 2025.
  • Artistic research, writing, design and production of Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas (Spector Books) Eline Benjaminsen & Dayna Casey. Design assisted by Minne Piot. Leipzig, 2025.
  • Tutor MA Critical Inquiry Lab. Design Academy Eindhoven, 2023 – 2025.
  • Commissioned artist book for Afra Eisma. Editorial design, assisted by Minne Piot. NL, 2025.
  • Advisor for committee funding applications, Stimuleringsfonds. Rotterdam, 2024 – 2025.
  • Exhibition at Radius CCA, Delft. Video work and installation, with Eline Benjaminsen. Delft, 2024.
  • Exhibition at Antwerp Art Weekend: From Me To You Space Editions. Antwerp, 2024.
  • Guest-tutor, lecture and feedback sessions. KASK, MA students Graphic Design. Gent, 2024.
  • Lecture on Essayistic Tendencies at Kunsthal Gent. Alongside Metahaven and Katja Mater, 'Meeting Grounds: The Essay as Event' in the context of Paul Bailey’s practice-based PhD research on the ‘visual essay’. Gent, 2023.
  • Post-graduate residency at Jan van Eyck Academy. Maastricht, 2022 – 2023.
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  • * This project is expanding Sami Hammana’s initial Geofinancial Lexicon (Abstract Supply, 2021) and is supported by CNA Luxemburg, Stroom Den Haag, Stimuleringsfonds, Art Council Norway, Jan van Eyck Academie, Radius CCA.

    • 2025
  • Participant at Perdu writing program. Amsterdam, 2024 – 2025.
  • Received funding support from Stroom Pro Research. The Hague, 2025.
  • Lecture on Research and Theory in Editorial Practices, KABK. The Hague, 2025.
  • Lecture on Editing as a Visual Genre. Critical Inquiry Lab, MA Students. Eindhoven, 2025.
  • Exhibition at Oslo Kunstforening, Norway, Video work and prints, with Eline Benjaminsen. Oslo, Nov – Jan, 2025.
  • Artist talk at Oslo Kunstforening with Eline Benjaminsen. The Flora – Hedging (a.k.a. hedge heist). Oslo, Jan, 2025.
  • Artistic research, writing, design and production of Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas (Spector Books) Eline Benjaminsen & Dayna Casey. Design assisted by Minne Piot. Leipzig, 2025.
  • Tutor MA Critical Inquiry Lab. Design Academy Eindhoven, 2023 – 2025.
  • Commissioned artist book for Afra Eisma. Editorial design, assisted by Minne Piot. NL, 2025.
  • Advisor for committee funding applications, Stimuleringsfonds. Rotterdam, 2024 – 2025.

    • 2024
  • Exhibition at Radius CCA, Delft (NL). 24 February – 5 May. Video work and installation. The Flora – Hedging. Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas With Eline Benjaminsen
  • Artistic research and production Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas (Spector Books, 2024) Ed. Eline Benjaminsen & Dayna Casey
  • Artistic research and production The Flora: Hedging (a.k.a. hedge heist) Eline Benjaminsen & Dayna Casey at Max Collective Brussels and Wassenaar
  • Work shown at Antwerp Art Weekend: From Me To You Space Editions, Antwerp (BE)
  • Guest-tutor: lecture and feedback sessions KASK, MA students Graphic Design, Gent (BE)
  • Commissioned: exhibition archive catalogue for Annosh Urbanke. Graphic design, with Minne Piot. Zero Foundation Düsseldorf (DE)

    • 2023
  • Talk Essayistic Tendencies at Kunsthal Gent (BE). Alongside Metahaven and Katja Mater, 'Meeting Grounds: The Essay as Event' in the context of Paul Bailey’s practice-based PhD research on the ‘visual essay’
  • Exhibition installation at Kunsthal, Gent (BE). Fertile Imaginaries. 'Meeting Grounds: The Essay as Event' by Paul Bailey
  • ABCB Assemblage Charbonnages at Max Collective: Artist Talk, Brussels (BE)
  • Year-long residency at Jan van Eyck post-graduate program (NL)
  • Exhibition installation, Open Studios Jan van Eyck Fertile Imaginaries: Untitled voice supported by Valentina Curandi
  • Reading performance, Jan van Eyck Fertile Imaginaries: Untitled voice supported by Valentina Curandi
  • Fertile Imaginaries: A Vessel for 92% Water at ABC Art Book Fair, Hangzhou, (China)
  • Language of Climate Care Care Ecologies Workshop with Ania Molenda, Arias Amsterdam (NL)
  • Exhibition: Fertile Imaginaries: A Vessel for 92% Water at Cusp, Hangzhou, (China)
  • Artistic research: on the parallels between financialised bodily and earthly extraction in egg-freezing
  • Artistic research and production Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas (Spector Books, 2024) Ed. Eline Benjaminsen & Dayna Casey
  • KABK Earth Craft guidance, Studium Generale The Hague

    • 2022
  • Year-long residency at Jan van Eyck post-academy
  • Artistic research and production Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas (Spector Books, 2024) Ed. Eline Benjaminsen & Dayna Casey
  • KABK Word for World is Soil programme, editorial and visual guidance
  • External critic WDKA Honours programme
  • Fiber Festival 'Mutation', Amsterdam: talk on Wxtch Craft with Erika Sprey
  • Well Projects writing piece for publication
  • KABK Wxtch craft zine publication, editor and designer Spring Sessions
  • Nest Den Haag, every moment a junction, w melanie bonajo, Maaike Gouwenberg, Erika Sprey. Image artwork

    • 2021
  • KABK Wxtch craft zine publication, editor and designer Fall Sessions
  • Fertile Imaginaries part of Hoops Purity is not an Option Climate Care reading group, The Rewilding Years: On a Nature Culture Learning Site Floating University, Berlin
  • Fertile Imaginaries reading on Radio Robida, Robida Collective writing broadcasted
  • Textile piece for Kasvio, Fertile Imaginaries at Kasvio, Food as Story-telling curated by Staci Bu Shea
  • KABK Wxtch craft zine publication, editor and designer Spring Sessions
  • Artworks Bare Fruits for Georgie Sinclair and Rosie Haward – feminist queer literature podcast
  • Collective Spell Zazie Stevens, Daisyworld Magazine #2

    • 2020
  • MA critical theory thesis, Epistemic Anxiety: Disembodied Objectivity and the Oscillating Climate Sceptic – setting the stakes for a feminist quantum imaginary supervised by Rachel O’Reilly
  • Gossip and Joyful Militancy reading together with Marthe Prins, Diptych, Amsterdam
  • Fertile Imaginaries, A Vessel for 92% Water reading as part of Daisyworld Magazine launch at San Serriffe, Amsterdam
  • It Doesn’t Have to Taste Good to be Affective collective presentation with coop All About my Mother, Casco Art Institute, Radio Kootwijk
  • Fertile Imaginaries, A Vessel for 92% Water published in Zazie Stevens' Daisyworld Magazine
  • A queer rewriting of the Last Will and Testament with Anakin Xersonsky and Saskia Burggraaf, at Radio Kootwijk
  • Fertile Imaginaries, A Vessel for 92% Water Aeroponic Acts, Kootwijk, Dutch Art Institute (Installation, performance)
  • KABK Wxtch craft, visual communication
  • KABK Studium Generale, The Parasite, visual communication

    • 2019
  • How do Bodies Read Together? performative installation and reading at Grote Kerk, Groede
  • Reading evaporated tears collective presentation with coop “Agency,” Parco Naturale Regionale Molentargius-Saline, Cagliari, Sardinia
  • Transitioning to (il)logics performative reading at Silent Green, Berlin
  • Terms of Now performative reading at Patronaat, Epen
  • KABK Studium Generale, The Parasite, visual communication
  • KABK Studium Generale, May You Live in Interesting Times, visual communication


  • EDUCATION
  • 2018 – 2020:
  • Dutch Art Institute, Art Praxis
    Roaming Academy, EU
    Master of Art 2020

  • 2019 – 2020
  • Critical theory with Rachel O’Reilly: At the Limits of the Writerly: Anthropology and Global Fantasy
  • Project group with Sepake Angiama, Staci Bu Shea, Nina bell F., Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons: All about my mother (on care, reproductive labour, the familial and the institutional)
  • School of Expressions: experimental project on knowledge other than the systematised – PLATO, Ostrava, Czech Republic

  • 2018 – 2019
  • Critical theory with Rachel O’Reilly: At the Limits of the Writerly: Queer Theory and the Critique of Energy
  • Project group with James Bridle, Navine G.Khan-Dossos, Van Abbemuseum: Agency – Everyday practice and global power
  • Writing Beyond Fictocriticism curated by David Maroto

  • 2008 – 2013
  • Royal Academy of Art – The Hague, NL Bachelor of Graphic Design
  • 2011
  • Erasmus Exchange Programme, Visual Communication, Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin
  • 2001 – 2007: VWO

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