| Description: | Ursula Biemann studied art and cultural
theory in Mexico and at the School of
Visual Arts and the Whitney
Independent Study Program in New
York. Her art and curatorial work focuses
on gender relations in economy, media
and geography, including a two-year
project, Kultiir, on gender and urban
politics in Istanbul and videos on the US-
Mexico border, the global sex industry
and the Spanish Moroccan borderlands.
Her video-essays Performing the Border
(1999), Writing Desire (2000), Remote
Sensing (2001) and Europlex (2003)
have been shown at biennials in Geneva,
Istanbu and Havana and at festivals in
Kassel, Duisburg, Chicago and
Werkleitz, as well as at international art
exhibitions Manifesto 3 in Ljubljana,
InSite Los Angeles, and at the Modern
Art Museum in New York, MACBA
Barcelona, the Centre Pompidou in Paris
and Tate Modern in London.
In 2003 she curated the exhibition and
catalogue Geography and the Politics of
Mobility at the Cenerali Foundation in
Vienna. She has also published been
there and back to nowhere: gender in
transnational spaces (b_books, Berlin)
and Stuff It: The Video Essay in the
Digital Age (Springer, Vienna/New York,
2003). She is currently producing a video
complex entitled The Black Sea Files on
Caspian oil politics, and will conduct a
group project in Cairo in 2005-2006.
Biemann researches at the Institute for
Theory of Art and Design at HGKZ,
Zurich, and teaches seminars and
workshops inter - nationally.
www.geobodies.org
| | Description Source: | exhibition catalogue, International 04, Liverpool Biennial | | Description Source Date: | 2004 | | Gender: | female | | Type: | person |
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