Two Acts and Several Spectres independent

The sharing session will be centred on a few works-in-progress, each which trace how time, infrastructure, and documentary film intertwine. One video work is set in Northern Thailand and Laos, where since the 1990s, the flood pulse of Southeast Asia's main river, the Mekong, has drastically changed. Instead of being governed by the seasons, the river's pulse is now dictated by the energetic demands of distant cities. The film looks at the processes, both past and present, that have allowed Far-flung actors to alter the Mekong, itself, situated far away from the actual site of the dams. While along the banks of the Mekong, protagonists navigate a river gone rogue.

Another, centred on memory and belonging as it relates to the history of technological trade, seen through the lens of the artist's mother's career as an optical engineer in Beijing during the 1980's. An alternative genealogy is constructed through a mother-daughter relationship where tensions are held between memory and its images, belonging and statecraft, lens crafting, and transposition.

Solveig Qu Suess works within the fields of documentary Film and artistic research. She draws on Feminist science and technology studies, the environmental humanities, and visual ethnography to examine questions of power, perception, and epistemic politics.Through her documentary work, she has been developing Filmmaking as an intimate practice within global processes. Solveig's works have been shown widely in exhibitions and festivals. 5he is currently artist-in-residence and assistant professor at NYUShanghai, and is a PhD candidate in Urban Studies at the University of Basel.