Halting the News

Mieke Bal is a cultural theorist, critic, video artist, curator, and author of 45 books, and supervisor of 81 completed doctorates. She writes in an interdisciplinary perspective on cultural analysis, literature, and art, focusing on gender, migratory culture, the critique of capitalism, and political art. Since 2002 she has also been making films, as a different, more in-depth and more contemporary mode of cultural analysis, and now writing, filmmaking and curating go together. In her 2022 book Image-Thinking (Edinburgh UP) she develops her ideas about how to integrate academic and artistic thinking. As a filmmaker, she has made a number of experimental documentaries, mostly about migratory situations, and “theoretical fictions”, films, and installations in which fiction helped develop difficult ideas.