Solveig Süss
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Solveig Qu Suess is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of documentary cinema, infrastructure studies, and feminist media. Moving between planetary systems and private archives, her work reveals the deep links between technological and emotional landscapes. Her work has been featured in art institutions and film festivals internationally, with a focus on spatial and postcolonial techno-politics. She is currently a PhD candidate in Urban Studies at the University of Basel.
In her PhD project Holding Rivers, Becoming Mountains, she has been focused on the Mekong River as a device to research a series of infrastructural transformations between China and Southeast Asia. Using the time-based medium of documentary video, the project looks at the scalar politics of the region’s energy transition.
Previously she was artist-in-residence and Visiting Assistant Professor at NYU Shanghai (2024-25), and Junior Researcher on SNSF project Environmental Fix at Critical Media Lab FHNW (2020-24). In 2017, she graduated from the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, during which she focused on how the calculation and management of weather and environments were crucial in the formation of supply chain capitalism, with her case-study on the transcontinental Belt and Road Initiative cutting across desert spaces in Western China.
Arbeitsschwerpunkte
infrastructure studies
visual ethnography
environmental humanities
feminist science and technology studies
visual culture