Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, 2514 HA The Hague
The Netherlands
22 January 2009
Stroom Den Haag starts the year with 'The Knight's Move', a series of lectures by eminent international speakers who stand out by their unusual, enlightening and inspirational visions concerning the city, urbanity, the public domain, and community.
Just as the knight moves in an atypical and unusual way across the chessboard, Stroom likewise wants to cut across all disciplines and thus stimulate rethinking the city.
First in line is the Swiss artist, theoretician and curator Ursula Biemann, who will talk about her artistic practice.
Best known for her video essays, she has developed a unique aesthetic language for topics of migration, mobility, technology and gender.
Biemann will give insight into her newly published monograph 'Mission Reports' covering ten years of video research which the artist has conducted throughout contested trans-national territories of the world.
Ursula Biemann's artistic practice examines contemporary forms of migration, mobility, technology and gender in relationship to space.
In a series of internationally exhibited video projects, as well as in several books ('Geography and the Politics of Mobility', 2003; 'Stuff It - The Video Essay in the Digital Age', 2003; ‘The Maghreb Connection, 2006') and her new monograph 'Mission Reports' she has focused on the gendered dimension of migration, from smuggling on the Spanish-Moroccan border to migrant sex workers in the global context.
Insisting that location is spatially produced rather than pre-determined by governance, she made space and mobility her prime category of analysis in the art and research projects 'Black Sea Files' on the Caspian oil politics and 'Sahara Chronicle' mapping out the transit migration in the Maghreb.
The most recent video essay 'X-Mission' is an analysis of the Palestinian refugee camps as a zone of exception, which premiered at the 7th Gwangju Biennale.
All of her projects are research oriented and carried out in complex forms of collaborations with academics, NGO members, and other practitioners.
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