[plug.in] Video

Ursula Biemann
English

Spiralling down from an orbital view captured by image satellites, the video-essay takes an earthly perspective on cross-border circuits, where women have emerged as key actors. Remote Sensing traces the routes and reasons of women who travel across the globe for work in the sex industry. Voluntarily or not, women are moved in great numbers from Manila to Nigeria, from Burma to Thailand, from Bulgaria to Western Europe: female bodies in the information flow of global capitalism.
The highly digital documents generated for this video link new geographic technologies to the sexualization and displacement of women on a global scale. They convey how powerful players like states, scientific complexes and military institutions are installing a sexuality that eroticizes hierarchies. Using the latest images from NASA satellites, the video investigates the consequences of the U.S. military presence in South East Asia as well as the European migartion politics.

More information: www.geobodies.org
2001