[rohrpost] <raum3> Donnerstag, 01.11.2001: Ursula Biemann's Performing the Border and Remote Sensing

[Diana McCarty]

  kino raum 3 -- ziegelstrasse 20 -- 10119 berlin -- http://bootlab.org/raum3/
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        Raum 3 presents
        Performing the Border and a preview of Remote Sensing
        with Ursula Biemann in person to take questions
        + Drinks and Bytes!

        Donnerstag, 1. November 2001
        Raum 3, Ziegelstrasse 23, 10119 Berlin  
        http://bootlab.org/raum3
        Eintritt: DM 5,-

        20.00 Uhr: Performing the Border (43 min) 1999

        A video essay set in the Mexican-US border town Ciudad Juarez, 
        where the US industries assemble their digital equipment, 
        located right across from El Paso, Texas. Performing the Border 
        looks at the border as both a discursive and a material space 
        constituted through the performance of gender and the management 
        of these gender relations. The video discusses the sexualisation 
        of the border region through labor division, prostitution, the 
        entertainment industry, and sexual violence in the public 
        sphere.  

        Lumpenvision netcast at http://www.lumpen.com

        21.00 Uhr: Remote Sensing (54 min) Preview

        Spiralling down from an orbital view captured by image 
        satellites, the video-essay takes an earthly perspective on 
        cross-border circuits, where women have emerged as key actors. 
        Remote Sensing traces the routes and reasons of women who travel 
        across the globe for work in the sex industry. Voluntarily or 
        not, women are displaced in great numbers from Manila to 
        Nigeria, from Burma to Thailand, from Bulgaria to Europe: female 
        bodies in the flow of global capitalism. The highly digital 
        documents generated for this video link new geographic 
        technologies to the sexualization and displacement of women on a 
        global scale. Using the latest images from NASA satellites, the 
        video investigates the consequences of the U.S. military 
        presence in South East Asia as well as the European migration 
        politics.

        Remote Sensing will be premiered at the Duisburger Film Festival 
        on November 7th. 

        Ursula Biemann <biemann@access.ch> is an artist and videomaker 
        focusing on gender and globalisation issues in economy, media 
        and the urban space. Lives in Zurich, Switzerland
 
 
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