Deep Weather
How does our relentless pursuit of oil trigger profound changes on a planetary scale?
Deep Weather was a video essay that took us on a visual journey from Canada’s oil sands to Bangladesh’s flood-threatened plains. In linking the two remote sites, artist Ursula Biemann addressed the cause-and-effect relationship of global warming and highlights the interconnectedness of earth systems. The work revealed how fossil fuel extraction in Northern Canada pushed vulnerable populations in Bangladesh to adapt to rising sea levels and extreme weather events.
Supported by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, New Delhi.
Medium: Video
Year: 2013
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Ursula Biemann
Artist
Ursula Biemann is a Swiss artist and theorist, whose practice centres on fieldwork, often in Indigenous territories, and the creation of networks between different fields of knowledge. Her artistic practice reflects on the political ecologies of forests, oil and water, creating through her videos, books and installations critical perspectives on the dynamics of extraction and also proposing alternative, ecocentric modes of ecological and epistemological relatedness. She published the online monograph Becoming Earth on ten years of her ecological video works and writing and the book Forest Mind - On the Interconnection of All Life with Spector Books.
