Ortsbezogene Kunst - Statement by Ursula Biemann Becoming Earth
Photo Credits: Forest Mind (2022), Acoustic Ocean (2018), all
© Ursula Biemann
Join us for a conversation
with Swiss artist, author, and video essayist Ursula Biemann, whose visionary works focus on the planet’s changing climate
and its ecological impact. Grounded in a research-based practice, Ursula Biemann’s videos and installations exhibited in Becoming
Earth at MQ Freiraum consider the relationship between politics and the environment across local, global, and planetary
contexts.
In recent years, her fieldwork has taken her from the
Amazon, where indigenous people like the Inga are struggling to preserve their ecosystems and cosmovision, to the depths of
the North Atlantic Ocean, where even deep sea creatures must navigate human-induced environmental change. Underscoring how
people, flora, and fauna are intimately connected, Biemann’s projects challenge globalist models of resource extraction and
exploitation while inviting viewers to rethink their relationships with the Earth.
In this artist workshop, Ursula
will discuss her collaboration with Indigenous Inga leaders and educators, cocreating the project Devenir Universidad - a
platform for biocultural education in the Putumayo region of Colombia. Devenir Universidad engages with the living cognitive
territory of the Amazonian rainforest and the ways in which the indigenous communities can protect and transmit knowledge
generated over millenia. Biemann will also discuss her recent artist film, Forest Mind (2021), which unites diverse
strands of knowledge on the metaphysics of plants, on plant-human relationships, and the coding of life with its form of storing
information. Drawing on scientific as well as shamanic perspectives of engaging with the world, these videos take an ecocentric
worldview in search for the intelligence of nature.
As space is limited, please register in advance at: ortsbezogenekunst@uni-ak.ac.at
https://geobodies.org/
www.ortsbezogenekunst.at 
