Solveig Sarah Suess

Solveig Suess is an Artist in Residence and a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Arts (IMA) at NYU Shanghai. She 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, while using filmmaking as an intimate practice within global processes. Her research at NYU Shanghai is a continuation of her film project, Holding Rivers, Becoming Mountains, set along the Mekong River and within the downstream politics of hydroelectric development, in which the river becomes a device to understand a series of infrastructural transformations between China and Southeast Asia.

Education

• PhD, Urban Studies (ongoing)
  University of Basel
• MA, Research Architecture
  Goldsmiths, University of London
• BA (Hons), Visual Communication 
  Glasgow School of Art

Selected Publications

• Suess, Solveig Qu, in conversation with Johannes Bruder. “Holding Rivers, Becoming Mountains” Real Intelligence (and Other Flows and Fictions), vol. 1 of Basel Dialogues, Christoph Merian Verlag, June 2024. https://www.merianverlag.ch/en/produkt/kunst/real-intelligence-and-other-flows-and-fictions/73190754-4045-423c-b01a-bf8040c59eea.html.
• Suess, Solveig Qu. “A Moonless Night.” Radical History Review, no. 147, Duke University Press, 2023. https://read.dukeupress.edu/radical-history-review/article/2023/147/103/382579/A-Moonless-Night.
• Suess, Solveig Qu. “Overland There’s Shorter Time to Dream.” In Deserts Are Not Empty, edited by Samia Henni. Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2022. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/deserts-are-not-empty/.
• Bazdyrieva, Asia, and Solveig Qu Suess. “The Futures Forecast.” In New Silk Roads, E-flux Architecture, 2019. https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/new-silk-roads/313108/the-future-forecast/.
• Suess, Solveig Qu. “Distributed Resistance.” Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image, special issue on “Becoming Environmental: Media, Logistics, and Ecological Change,” vol. 8, no. 1, 2018. https://synoptique.ca/8-1-becoming-environmental/.