Ursula Biemann

Ursula Biemann, Zurich, studied art and cultural theory in Mexico and New York. Her art and curatorial practice focuses is on the representation of minority identities and gender in the media and in posturban zones, such as the US-Mexico border or the periphery of Istanbul. Videos: Performing the Border on the gendered condition of the global digital industry, 1999; Writing Desire on female sexuality and the bride market in cyberspace, 2000; Remote Sensing on the global sex trade and geographic information systems, 2001, and Europlex on the Spanish Moroccan borderlands. Her videos have received numerous awards and are screened at festivals and museum. Curatorial projects at Shedhalle Zurich 1995-1998 ”Geography and the Politics of Mobility" exhibition at Generali Foundation in Vienna, Jan 2003. Biemann lectures and publishes internationally. Her artist books is titled "been there and back to nowhere - on gender in transnational spaces", b_books Berlin 2000 and "Stuff It, the Video Essay in the Digital Age". She is guest professor at the Art Academy in Geneva and researches at the Institute for Theory in Art and Design at HGKZ, Zurich.

Europlex
A film by Ursula Biemann and Angela Sanders, 2003, 20 min., Color
The fourth in Ursula Biemann's critically acclaimed series of video essays that investigates migration across borders, EUROPLEX, a collaboration with ...

Performing the Border
A film by Ursula Biemann, 1999, 42 min., Color
A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment j...

Remote Sensing
A film by Ursula Biemann, 2001, 53 min., Color
In Biemann’s latest video, she traces the routes and reasons of women who travel across the globe for work in the sex industry. By using the latest i...

Writing Desire
A film by Ursula Biemann, 2000, 23 min., Color
"Ursula Biemann’s WRITING DESIRE is a video essay on the new dream screen of the Internet and how it impacts on the global circulation of women’s bodi...