Mieke Bal

University of Amsterdam

September–December 2016

Mieke Bal is a cultural theorist, critic, and video artist. She works on feminism, migratory culture, mental illness and the history of psychoanalysis, and the critique of capitalism. Her books include a trilogy on political art: Endless Andness (on abstraction) and Thinking in Film (on video installation), both 2013, Of What One Cannot Speak (2010, on sculpture) and A Mieke Bal Reader (2006). Her video project, Madame B, with Michelle Williams Gamaker, is widely exhibited. Her Clark project concerns the cinematic in paintings of Edvard Munch for an exhibition at the Munch Museum, Oslo. www.miekebal.org