2014 (32’)

Switzerland

Director: Ursula Biemann

Forest Law is a collaborative video project with Paulo Tavares on the cosmopolitics of Amazonia. It draws on research carried out in the oil-and-mining frontier in the Ecuadorian Amazon— one of the most biodiverse and mineral-rich regions on Earth, currently under pressure from the massive expansion of extraction activities. At the heart of Forest Law is a series of landmark legal cases that bring the forest to court and plead for the rights of nature. The artist talk will focus on one particularly paradigmatic trial that has recently been won by the indigenous people of Sarayuku based on their cosmology of the living forest.

FESTIVALS

• OK. PANGAN (OK. FOOD), O.K. Video Festival, Indonesia, 2017

Ursula Biemann is an artist, author, and video essayist based in Zurich, Switzerland. Her artistic practice is strongly research oriented and involves fieldwork in remote locations where she investigates climate change and the ecologies of oil and water. Her video installations are exhibited worldwide in museums and at international art biennials in Liverpool, Sharjah, Shanghai, Sevilla, Istanbul, Montreal, Venice and Sao Paulo and she had comprehensive solo exhibitions at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Bildmuseet Umea, Lentos Museum Linz and Helmhaus Zurich.

Original languages:
Spanish, English

Editor:
Ursula Biemann

Cinematographer:
Ursula Biemann

Producer:
Ursula Biemann

Contact:
Ursula Biemann
E: Ursula@geobodies.org