SYNOPSIS
The latest work from video artist, Ursula Biemann, this film explores the sex business where women are sold within or beyond the borders of their countries. Using satellite images from NASA, latitude and longitude figures and tracking devices, this film uniquely places indicators at areas where the women are dislocated or displaced. Like her earlier works, Biemann introduces a video activism that sets itself apart from the traditional format of exposing social absurdities. Virtual reality, images from satellite photos, and digital matrix code are combined with New Age scores to create an audio-visual image that shakes the senses and represents the temporal and spatial sphere of all contemporary women.
The encounter with the abstract and experimental works of video art, perhaps considered the most actual of all media, creates an extraordinary experience for the senses. At the same time, this film exposes the reality of women who no longer tend the home, but roam the world like ghosts as pawns of the sex trade. (Kim Sun-ah)
PROGRAM NOTE
The latest work from video artist, Ursula Biemann, this film explores the sex business where women are sold within or beyond the borders of their countries. Using satellite images from NASA, latitude and longitude figures and tracking devices, this film uniquely places indicators at areas where the women are dislocated or displaced. Like her earlier works, Biemann introduces a video activism that sets itself apart from the traditional format of exposing social absurdities. Virtual reality, images from satellite photos, and digital matrix code are combined with New Age scores to create an audio-visual image that shakes the senses and represents the temporal and spatial sphere of all contemporary women.
The encounter with the abstract and experimental works of video art, perhaps considered the most actual of all media, creates an extraordinary experience for the senses. At the same time, this film exposes the reality of women who no longer tend the home, but roam the world like ghosts as pawns of the sex trade. (Kim Sun-ah)