Ursula Biemann
Ursula Biemann is a Swiss-born artist, author and video essayist. Her artistic practice is strongly research-oriented and involves fieldwork in remote locations, from Greenland to the Amazon, where she investigates climate change and the ecologies of oil, ice, forests and water. In her multi-layered videos, the artist weaves vast cinematic landscapes with documentary footage, SF poetry, and scholarly findings to narrate a changing planetary reality. Biemann’s pluralistic practice encompasses a variety of media including experimental video, interview, text, performance, photography, cartography, props and materials, converging in formalised spatial installations. Her work also takes the form of curatorial and collaborative publications, conferences and research projects.
Her previous experimental writing and video work has focused on the gendered dimension of migration. She also made space and mobility her first category in the curating projects Geography and the Politics of Mobility, The Maghreb Connection, and the widely exhibited Sahara Chronicle art and research project on clandestine migration networks. With Black Sea Files (2005), Biemann shifted the main focus to natural resources and their situated materiality. In 2010 she co-started the World of Matter collective project on global resource ecologies.
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