EAN: 9783959056816

FOREST MIND - BIEMANN URSULA KARTONIERT (TB)

In the summer of 2018  Ursula Biemann was commissioned to undertake an extended field trip
across the South of Colombia. Many surprising developments ensued from this initial journey in
the Amazonian rainforest where the histories of colonial conquest and natural science
intertwine. Forest Mind is the result of a series of territorial engagements through
video-making  photography  academic research  personal narrative  and the co-creation of an
Indigenous University with the Inga people of Colombia. The explorations focus on the
intelligence in nature from both shamanic and scientific perspectives. In these tropical
forests  human and nonhuman territorial projects become entangled  calling for new ways of
generating knowledge that spur the imagination. The Indigenous science of Ayahuasca as it is
practiced by the traditional medics in Amazonia  is largely based in visions evoked by the
psychoactive plant. Here  knowing does not only occur from a distance by describing  naming 
and exploiting  but as an encounter between minds and worlds. The artist's research brings to
light contemporary Western science that has already been practiced by ancestral medics for
millennia  allowing them to interact at the molecular level of DNA. Experimenting with new
genetic technologies in collaboration with the ETH lab in Zurich  the visual universe of this
project partially derives from biological materials and video-images of the rainforest which
were encoded in one and the same DNA strand. In this personal quest  Swiss artist and author
Ursula Biemann pursues her long-term inquiry at the intersection of art  ecology and indigenous
cosmologies. The artist book presents a biosemiotics project that takes a deep dive into the
mechanics of the interconnectedness of all life  and reflects on the active  performative role
images play in merging mind and forest.

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