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Categories: Video
Relevant passages:
Yvonne Volkart «Unruly Bodies. The Effect Body As a Place of Resistance»
Works by Ursula Biemann:
Check as well:
Kristin Lucas
Jane Prophet Kristin Lucas «Involuntary Reception» Francesca da Rimini «Dollspace»
Ursula Biemann
«Performing the Border»
A video essay set in the Mexican-US border town Ciudad Juarez, where the U.S. industries assemble their electronic and digital equipment, located right across from El Paso, Texas. «Performing the Border» looks at the border as both a discursive and a material space constituted through the performance and management of gender relations. The video discusses the sexualization of the border region through labor division, prostitution, the expression of female desires in the entertainment industry, and sexual violence in the public sphere. Interviews, scripted voice over, quoted text on the screen, scenes and sounds recorded on site, as well as found footage are combined to give an insight into the gendered conditions inscribed in the border region.
