Performing the Border

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
Buffalo, New York

Friday, July 25, 8:00 p.m.
Performing the Border:
Video Essays by Ursula Biemann

In recent years, Swiss artist Ursula Biemann has produced a wide variety of works that investigate issues of mobility, technology and identity. Her experimental video essay Performing the Border (1999) is set in Ciudad Juarez, situated across the border from El Paso, Texas, where many U.S. industries hire Mexican workers to assemble digital equipment and electronics. Using interviews with women factory workers and prostitutes, scripted voice over, and found footage, Biemann explores topics such as divisions of labor and sexual violence in order to document the gendered conditions of this border town.

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[graphic from Hallwalls Web site.]