Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Much of her work points to the relationships between physical environments and human struggles for power and control that play out on the land. Recent projects have addressed freedom, expansionism, surveillance, sonic warfare, public speech, ghosts, sinkholes, levitation, propagation, orthoptera, raptors, comets and faith. In this public lecture, Deborah Stratman will present her work and discuss her artistic practice.
Deborah Stratman’s film The Illinois Parables is screening at the Essay Film Festival on Tuesday 28th March 2017.
