An Evening With: Ursula Biemann
Swiss video artist Ursula Biemann shows us how she looks at the environment in her work, combining broad theories about the Earth with what happens on a smaller scale in practice. Biemann travels to remote areas such as the Arctic and the Amazon rainforest where she comes into contact with Indigenous communities and their views of nature. Guided by the philosopher Rosi Braidotti, Biemann talks about her environmental projects.
3 October 2024 17:30 - 19:00
Ursula Biemann
Ursula Biemann is an artist, writer and video essayist. Her artistic practice is strongly research-based, involving 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, she interweaves vast cinematic landscapes with documentary footage, science fiction poetry and academic research to narrate a changing planetary reality. Biemann’s pluralistic practice spans a range of media including experimental video, interview, text, performance, photography, cartography, props and materials, which converge in formalised spatial installations. Her work also takes the form of publications, lectures, and curatorial and collaborative research projects.
During the After Summer School on 2 October, Ursula Biemann and research architect Santiago del Hierro will give a workshop on the creative methods developed with the Inga people in the Colombian Amazon. More information about the workshop will be announced soon.
An Evening With
An Evening With is a monthly series of talks featuring emerging and established international voices in design, architecture and digital culture. Designers and artists take you on a journey through their practice, sources of inspiration, fascinations and dreams of the future.
Language: English | Location: Nieuwe Instituut | Tickets: €10,-/5,-/0,-
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