Remote Sensing: Routing female bodies in the age of geographic information systems

Ursula Biemann & Ingrid Hoofd

Origin: Static Issue 02
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An interview for Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 1, 2003

'Ursula Biemann's video and curatorial practice focuses on gender and globalization issues regarding migration, free trade zones, virtual communication and borders. Biemann's videos navigate a unique path through critical dialogues on transnationalism, feminist geography and media activism. Focusing with precision on reinserting the axes of gender and ethnicity to the discussions on the proliferation of neoliberal globalization and the new technologies, her work combines feminist scholarship and political engagement with a strong visual language. In doing so, she draws a cartography of the migrating gendered body in the flow of global capitalism that inspires any feminist scholar ...'

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Video stills from left to right; Remote Sensing (2001), Writing Desire (2000), Performing the Border (1999).

Contributors:

Ursula Biemann studied art and cultural theory in Mexico and at the School of Visual Arts and the Whitney Program in New York. Her art and curatorial work focuses on gender relations in economy, media, and geography, including a long-term interest on the U.S.-Mexico border and on the trafficking of women. She curated the 2003 exhibition "Geography and the Politics of Mobility" in Vienna and published the artist book "been there and back to nowhere - gender in transnational spaces", 2000 and "Stuff It - the Videoessay in the digital age", 2003. Current art research projects include "The Black Sea Files" on the Caspian oil politics, 2005, and the Maghreb Art and Research Project on Mediterranean mobility, Cairo/Geneva, 2006. Biemann researches at the Institute for Theory of Art and Design at HGK Zurich lectures at the CCC program of the Arts Academy in Geneva, and teaches seminars and workshops internationally.

Ingrid Maria Hoofd is a PhD candidate at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Her dissertation is titled "Activism, academia, and new technologies: the complicities of theorised and mobilised resistances in the globalising discourses of speed" and discusses the ways in which alter-globalist activists, as well as left-wing academics, mobilise discourses and divisions in an attempt to overcome gendered, raced and classed oppressions worldwide. Ingrid is currently also teaching at the Communications and New Media Programme of NUS. She has been involved in various feminist and new media activist projects, like Indymedia, Next Five Minutes, HelpB92, and NextGenderation.

Associated Links:

www.geobodies.org