Ursula Biemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 967344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ursula Biemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ursula |
| FAMILY NAME | Biemann |
| SIGNATURE | BIEMANN U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grantmakers for Effective Organizations |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Counter-Geographies in the Sahara
While the Maghreb countries have a longstanding history of migration to Europe, the West African migration ow towards the North is a more recent phenomenon, coinciding with the consolidation of the European Union. Transit migration through the Sahara is a large-scale collective experience that is best understood, perhaps, in its systemic dimension. Highly adjustable, these movements have generated prolic operational networks, systems of informati…
Deep Weather
This short text looks at the topographies of borders under the impact of climate change, arguing that the rapid transformation of our physical environment is also urging us to find new textual and aesthetic modes of addressing and perceiving it. Through the reading of the recent video essay Deep Weather, the artist revisits two remote sites in frontier spaces—the delta in Bangladesh and the Alberta tar sands—and discusses their connection through…
The Cosmo-Political Forest
This collaborative project draws from research carried out by Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares in the oil-and-mining frontier in the Ecuadorian Amazon—one of the most biodiverse and mineral-rich regions on earth, currently under pressure from the dramatic expansion of large-scale extraction activities. At the heart of forest law is a series of landmark legal cases that bring the forest to court and plead for the rights of nature. One particularly…
From Supply Lines to Resource Ecologies
Supply Lines is an international media, art and research platform that investigates contemporary resource ecologies. The project brings artists, architects and photojournalists with substantial research experience on globalization together with theorists working in the areas of geography, art history and cultural theory. It aims to generate new audiovisual media, texts, and cartographies, as well as to debate this material in a series of symposia…
Dispersing the Viewpoint
Black Sea files
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Performing the border
La vidéo d’Ursula Biemann, Performing the border, enquête sur les conditions de vie et de travail des femmes dans la vaste arrière cour de l’économie américaine au sud de la frontière entre les États-Unis et le Mexique. Prenant comme point de départ une publicité de la société Elamex qui vend la main d’œuvre féminine au prix d’un dollar l’heure, la vidéaste montre que la construction sociale et technique de la frontière s’étend jusqu’à la sexuali…
Performing the Border
My video essay Performing the Border opens with a shot from inside a car moving through the Mexican desert near Ciudad Juarez. In the off, Bertha Jottar comments: “You need the crossing of bodies for the border to become real, otherwise you just have this discursive construction. There is nothing natural about the border; it’s a highly constructed place that gets reproduced through the crossing of people, because without the crossing there is no …
Remotely Sensed
Voluntarily or not, women are moved in great numbers from Manila to Nigeria, from Burma to Thailand, and from post-socialist countries to Western Europe: female geobodies in the flow of global capitalism. The recently released 53-minute video essay Remote Sensing by the Swiss artist and video director Ursula Biemann traces the routes and reasons of women who migrate into the global sex industry. Taking a geographical approach to trafficking, the …
Writing Desire
Performing the Border
My video essay Performing the Border opens with a shot from inside a car moving through the Mexican desert near Ciudad Juarez. In the off, Bertha Jottar comments: “You need the crossing of bodies for the border to become real, otherwise you just have this discursive construction. There is nothing natural about the border; it’s a highly constructed place that gets reproduced through the crossing of people, because without the crossing there is no …
Remotely Sensed
Voluntarily or not, women are moved in great numbers from Manila to Nigeria, from Burma to Thailand, and from post-socialist countries to Western Europe: female geobodies in the flow of global capitalism. The recently released 53-minute video essay Remote Sensing by the Swiss artist and video director Ursula Biemann traces the routes and reasons of women who migrate into the global sex industry. Taking a geographical approach to trafficking, the …
Deep Weather
This short text looks at the topographies of borders under the impact of climate change, arguing that the rapid transformation of our physical environment is also urging us to find new textual and aesthetic modes of addressing and perceiving it. Through the reading of the recent video essay Deep Weather, the artist revisits two remote sites in frontier spaces—the delta in Bangladesh and the Alberta tar sands—and discusses their connection through…
The Cosmo-Political Forest
This collaborative project draws from research carried out by Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares in the oil-and-mining frontier in the Ecuadorian Amazon—one of the most biodiverse and mineral-rich regions on earth, currently under pressure from the dramatic expansion of large-scale extraction activities. At the heart of forest law is a series of landmark legal cases that bring the forest to court and plead for the rights of nature. One particularly…
Dispersing the Viewpoint
Writing Desire
Performing the Border
My video essay Performing the Border opens with a shot from inside a car moving through the Mexican desert near Ciudad Juarez. In the off, Bertha Jottar comments: “You need the crossing of bodies for the border to become real, otherwise you just have this discursive construction. There is nothing natural about the border; it’s a highly constructed place that gets reproduced through the crossing of people, because without the crossing there is no …
Remotely Sensed
Voluntarily or not, women are moved in great numbers from Manila to Nigeria, from Burma to Thailand, and from post-socialist countries to Western Europe: female geobodies in the flow of global capitalism. The recently released 53-minute video essay Remote Sensing by the Swiss artist and video director Ursula Biemann traces the routes and reasons of women who migrate into the global sex industry. Taking a geographical approach to trafficking, the …
Performing the border
La vidéo d’Ursula Biemann, Performing the border, enquête sur les conditions de vie et de travail des femmes dans la vaste arrière cour de l’économie américaine au sud de la frontière entre les États-Unis et le Mexique. Prenant comme point de départ une publicité de la société Elamex qui vend la main d’œuvre féminine au prix d’un dollar l’heure, la vidéaste montre que la construction sociale et technique de la frontière s’étend jusqu’à la sexuali…
Black Sea files
de ce numro sur Cairn.info
Dispersing the Viewpoint
From Supply Lines to Resource Ecologies
Supply Lines is an international media, art and research platform that investigates contemporary resource ecologies. The project brings artists, architects and photojournalists with substantial research experience on globalization together with theorists working in the areas of geography, art history and cultural theory. It aims to generate new audiovisual media, texts, and cartographies, as well as to debate this material in a series of symposia…
The Cosmo-Political Forest
This collaborative project draws from research carried out by Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares in the oil-and-mining frontier in the Ecuadorian Amazon—one of the most biodiverse and mineral-rich regions on earth, currently under pressure from the dramatic expansion of large-scale extraction activities. At the heart of forest law is a series of landmark legal cases that bring the forest to court and plead for the rights of nature. One particularly…
Counter-Geographies in the Sahara
While the Maghreb countries have a longstanding history of migration to Europe, the West African migration ow towards the North is a more recent phenomenon, coinciding with the consolidation of the European Union. Transit migration through the Sahara is a large-scale collective experience that is best understood, perhaps, in its systemic dimension. Highly adjustable, these movements have generated prolic operational networks, systems of informati…
Deep Weather
This short text looks at the topographies of borders under the impact of climate change, arguing that the rapid transformation of our physical environment is also urging us to find new textual and aesthetic modes of addressing and perceiving it. Through the reading of the recent video essay Deep Weather, the artist revisits two remote sites in frontier spaces—the delta in Bangladesh and the Alberta tar sands—and discusses their connection through…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Frontier (2 works)