Ursula Biemann’s projects on politics of geography and mobility

Ursula Biemann is an artist, theorist and curator who has in recent years produced a considerable body of work on migration, mobility, technology and gender. In a series of internationally exhibited video projects, as well as in several books (”Been There and Back to Nowhere” (2000), “Geography and the Politics of Mobility” (2003)) which are often related to the video projects, she has focused on the gendered dimension of migrant labour from smuggling on the Spanish-Moroccan border to migrant sex workers moving from the East to the West.



Insisting that location is spatially produced rather than pre-determined by governance, she made space and mobility her prime category of analysis in the curatorial project “Geography and the Politics of Mobility” (2003), the recent art research projects “The Black Sea Files” on the Caspian oil politics, or the Maghreb Project on Mediterranean mobility (2006).
In these later projects she focuses on how locations and geographies get transformed at a time when subjects are no longer bound to one particular place.