Giulia Bruno's Artificial Act Video Explores Esperanto and Globalization

In 2017, Giulia Bruno's video project, Artificial Act. Research for a Film (2017–), was featured at Budapest's Off-Biennale. The Italian artist, based in Berlin, delves into Esperanto, a language devised by L.L. Zamenhof in the late 1800s to foster global unity. Her film connects Esperanto with issues of language, authority, and globalization, showcasing English professors from Jamaica and Connecticut, a museum dedicated to the 1955 Afro-Asian Bandung Conference, Fiat manuals in Esperanto, the 2017 World Esperanto Congress in Seoul, and a children's martial arts display. Bruno, who previously created Capital (2014), studied biology at Università degli Studi, photography at CFP Bauer, and cinema at Civic School of Cinema in Milan. She has worked with Armin Linke and Bruno Latour and was featured by Mark Rappolt in the January & February 2018 issue of ArtReview, alongside K11 Art Foundation.