Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Feminist Art Base: Ursula Biemann

been there and back to nowhere

Ursula Biemann. been there and back to nowhere, 2000.

Description:
Gender in transnational spaces / post production documents 1988 - 2000 / The profusely illustrated publication presents a cultural practice that focuses on gender in cross-border and migration movements and in the geographic context of post-urban zones such as the ones that have developed along the U.S.-Mexican border or on the periphery of Istanbul. From different perspectives, the projects look at how female bodies circulate in the transnational space, how gender relations are being regulated in the urban public sphere, in the subcontracting economy of international labor division and border economies, and in virtual and physical migration flows. At the same time, these projects pursue a continuing interest in gender and minority representations in the media and in the signifying systems of art and ethnography. Many of them have been realized in collaboration with migrant women in Europe or in global production sites. The publication sets out to link gender-specific social and economic analysis to the institutional critique of the art context and the cultural production and circulation of images. In this endeavour, the book addresses the NGO world, the art space and the academic context of cultural theory alike. With texts by Avtar Brah and Yvonne Volkart, Interviews with Bertha Jottar and Rosi Braidotti, videoscripts of Performing the Border and Writing Desire, and collective intercultural productions. English/German. 364 pages, 4-color. published by b_books Berlin, b_books@txt.de. U.S. distribution by Autonomedia New York. ISBN 3-933557-12-7

Medium:
Book

Tags:
Rosi Braidotti, Performing the Border, gender transnationalism, postcolonial critique, NGO, Writing Desire, migration, borders, labor, trafficking, Avtar Brah, Yvonne Volkart, Bertha Jottar, book