iEAR Salon presented Ursula Biemann, curated by Hanae Utamura, on October 12, 2022.
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The Arts Department at RPI presented the 2022 “iEAR Salon” virtual series exploring sense-abilities and environmental bodies, curated by the Arts Graduate Colloquium of Rensselaer. Mutli-disciplinary artists and thinkers Ursula Biemann, Timothy Morton, Jenn E Norton, Jaguar Mary X, and Špela Petrič addressed topics of deep ecology, alternative ways of knowing and new figurations of being-in-place.
This series is sponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer, in collaboration with The Sanctuary for Independent Media’s NATURE Lab initiative, and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature. iEAR Salon is curated by the Ph.D students of Arts Graduate Colloquium, Fall 2022: Nina Isabelle, John Santomieri, Hanae Utamura, Allie ES Wist, Arma Yari with Arts Graduate Colloquium Professor Branda Miller; iEAR Presents! curated by Kathy High and Branda Miller.
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Ursula Biemann is an artist, author, and video essayist.
A screening of Forest Mind (2021) was followed by Q&A. Located in the rainforests of Colombia, the experimental video Forest Mind (2021) brings practices of modern science and transitional medicine into conversation about the intelligence and metaphysics of plants and the coding of life in the language of DNA. To learn more, check out: https://geobodies.org/art-and-videos/forest-mind/.
Biemann's artistic practice is strongly research oriented and involves fieldwork in remote locations from Greenland to Amazonia, where she investigates climate change and the ecologies of oil, ice, forests and water. In her multi-layered videos, the artist interweaves vast cinematic landscapes with documentary footage, SF poetry and academic findings 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 formalized spatial installations.
Her work also adopts the form of publications, lectures, and curatorial as well as collaborative research projects. Her earlier writing and experimental video work focused on the gendered dimension of migration. She also made space and mobility her prime category in the curatorial projects “Geography and the Politics of Mobility”, “The Maghreb Connection“, and the widely exhibited art and research project Sahara Chronicle on clandestine migration networks. https://geobodies.org
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Hanae Utamura is an interdisciplinary artist from Japan, currently living in Troy NY and studying as a PhD Student in the Arts Department of Rensselaer.