U Biemann/A Sanders
Ursula Biemann, born 1955 in Zürich, lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland. Ursula Biemann studied art and cultural theory in Mexico and at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Her art and curatorial work focuses on gender relations in economy, media, and geography. The video-essays Performing the Border, Remote Sensing, and Writing Desire and art installations have been shown at international festivals and art exhibitions such as Manifesta in Ljubljana, Insite in Los Angeles, MOMA New York, MACBA Barcelona, Centre George Pompidou in Paris, and Tate Modern, London. Ursula Biemann curated the 2003 exhibition "Geography and the Politics of Mobility" at the Generali Foundation in Vienna. Biemann also published the artist book: \'been there and back to nowhere - gender in transnational spaces”. and "Stuff It - the videoessay in the digital age". Biemann is presently producing a video titled "The Black Sea Files" on the Caspian oil politics. In the summer of 2005, she is launching a collaborative Maghreb art and research project. Biemann is a researcher at the Institute for Theory of Art and Design in Zurich and teaches at CCC program, in Geneva. www.geobodies.org

Angela Sanders, born 1974 in Zürich, Switzerland, where she lives and works. Angela Sanders is a visual anthropologist and video artist. Sanders studied at the universities of Zurich and Edinburgh. Her research and video practice have focused on the Spanish-Moroccan borderlands and the living spaces of Moroccan domestic workers in Spain. At present Sanders works in a research project called city_space_transitions, which investigates the constitution and perception of urban space in Tokio, Zurich and Berlin. In addition to her academic work, Sanders produces her own videos. In 2003, she co-produced "Europlex" with Ursula Biemann, which examines cross-border movements performing the Iberic-moroccan borderlands. Her latest documentary "Domestic Scapes" (2004) gives insight in the daily life of Morrocan domestic workers in Sevilla and in the Spanish enclaves Ceuta and Melilla. Her videos have been exhibited internationally. Sanders publishes on subjects related to gender, identity and media and is in the editorial team of FRAZ, a Swiss feminist magazine.