Ursula Biemann

Ursula Biemann : mission reports : artistic practice in the field : video works 1998-2001

Paulo Tavares

This artist's book accompanies the exhibition of a collaborative project by Swiss artist Ursula Biemann and Brazilian architect Paulo Tavares, presented at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, MSU in August 2014. Forest Law is a dynamic visual-textual engagement with the legal, ecological, cosmological and scientific dimensions of the tropical forest in the Ecuadorian Amazon. A trajectory through a transforming landscape, the book illuminates a series of legal cases and indigenous struggles for the rights of nature, incorporating text fragments, video stills and newly designed maps as well as a selection from legal documents, historical archives and other research material. This publication is coupled with the exhibition catalogue The Land Grant: Forest Law.

Forest Law

Institut für Theorie der Gestaltung und Kunst

Video artists and cultural theorists illuminate the video essay in its role as crossover and communicator linking art, theory and critical practice. The text in this illustrated collection range from monologues of disembodiment to cartographies of diaspora experiences, from the essay as the organization of complex social shifts to its increasing digitalization.

The Video Essay in the Digital Age

Stuff it

This book presents cultural practices that take a gendered look at minority identities in the media as well as in post-urban zones such as the ones that have developed on the U.S.-Mexican bonier, in Istanbul, and in post-Social countries.

Ursula Biemann

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