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.



