Until 26th February 2006, the Black Sea Files by Ursula Biemann are on exhibition at KW Berlin as part of B-Zone. In this project, Ursula explores the new pipeline connecting Baku, the world’s oldest oil capital on the Caspian shore, with the Mediterreanean.
The line connecting the resource fringe with the terminal of the global high-tech oil circulation system, runs throught the video like a central thread. However, the trajectory followed by the narrative is by no means a linear one. Circumventing the main players in the region, the video sheds light on a multitude of secondary sceneries. Oil workers, farmers, refugees and prostitutes who live along the pipeline come into profile and contribute to a wider human geography that displaces the singular and powerful signifying practices of oil corporations and oil politicians. Drawing on investigatory fieldwork as practiced by anthropologists, journalists and secret intelligence agents, the Black Sea Files comment on artistic methods in the fiel and the ways in which information and visual intelligence is detected, circulated or withheld.
Soundtrack Peter Cusack, music Roland Fischer, supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
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