Ursula Biemann

[1] and directed artistic research projects (e.g. 2003-2005 B-Zone Becoming Europe and Beyond, 2005-2007 The Maghreb Connection) at the Institute for Theory at Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK.

Biemann initiated several curatorial and collaborative research and exhibition projects (e.g. World of Matter produced by Hartware Dortmund, in the collection of HEK Basel)[3] Biemann's early video art (e.g. 1999 Performing the Border and 2000's Writing Desire)[4] addressed the topics of gender, globalization, technology and Mobility in an essayistic and documentary-like style.

The cooperation resulted in the media work Devenir Universidad [6] and Forest Mind with a focus on the intelligence in nature and a dialogue between scientific and ancestral knowledge systems.

The UNAL commission also comprised the creation of a multi-media an online monograph Becoming Earth of Biemann's ecological video works from 2012-2024.

Biemann's writing addresses topics such as borders, migration, gender, the ecology, the Anthropocene, human-nonhuman relations and Indigenous knowledge systems,[1] including the ancient trans-Saharan trade routes that are now being used by migrants.