OUR CATALOG
Writing Desire
A film by Ursula Biemann
2000 | 23 minutes | Color | DVD | Order No. 01731
SYNOPSIS
PRESS
“Maps the digital networks of sexuality and gender that utterly redefine feminism. A brilliant surf through the digital landscapes of desire as they morph the gaze for transnational exchanges. An intellectually and artistically edgy tape by one of the most important visual artists working the politics of the analog/digital divide."
"'Writing Desire' is a short, experimental video that documents the traffic in internet brides. By showing how women are deploying the web to market themselves and express their desire (for a good home, for love, to escape poverty), the video functions as a sort of trompe l'oeil that unsettles categories such as love and desire that generally go unquestioned."
SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS AND AWARDS
- Future Bodies, University of Art and Design, Cologn
- Cinematik, Tijuana, Mexico
- Docfilm and Videofestival Kassel
- Centre George Pompidou, Paris
- VIDARTE International Video and Electronic Arts Festival, Mexico
- Center for Media Art, Germany - International Art and Media Award
- Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
- Female Geographies, Austrian Cultural Institute, Vienna
- Gouvernamentality, Hanover
- Sex - on Wishes and Desires, Dresdener Hygienemuseum
- Dallas Video Festival
- All is Fair in Love and War, Rotterdam 2001 Homeport
- Framing Globality, Stuttgarter Filmwinter
- Videoex, Video ane Expermental Film Festival, Zurich
- Women in Cinema, Washington
- One World Film Festival, Canada
- Cornell Cinema, Ithaca
- Open Space, International Women's University, Hanover
- Women in the Director's Chair
- Govett-Brester Art Gallery, New Zealand
ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)
Ursula Biemann is an artist, writer, and video essayist based in Zurich, Switzerland. Her artistic practice is strongly research oriented and involves fieldwork in remote locations where she investigates climate change and the ecologies of oil and water, as in her recent projects Acoustic Ocean (2018), Forest Law (2014), and Deep Weather (2013). Her earlier work focused on global relations under the impact of the accelerated mobility of people, resources and information, e.g. in the widely exhibited art and research project Sahara Chronicle on clandestine migration networks or her early video works examining the role of gender in the global reorganization of labor in Performing the Border. She is cofounder of World of Matter, an online collective art and media platform on resource geographies. Her video installations are exhibited worldwide in museums and at International Art Biennials in Liverpool, Sharjah, Shanghai, Sevilla, Istanbul, Montreal, Venice and Sao Paulo. She had comprehensive solo exhibitions at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Helmhaus Zurich among others. Biemann received the 2009 Prix Meret Oppenheim, the Swiss Grand Award for Art and a honorary degree in humanities from the Swedish University in Umeå. (7/19)
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RELATED LINKS
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Ursula Biemann's Website
Contains art and curatorial projects, books, videos and texts by Biemann on gender and geography.
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Ursula Biemann's book entitled, "Been There and Back to Nowhere: Gender in Transnational Spaces"
Also includes information on other projects she has completed.