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Voluntarily or not, women are moved in great numbers from Manila to Nigeria, from Burma to Thailand, and from post-socialist countries to Western Europe: female geobodies in the flow of global capitalism. The recently released 53-minute video essay Remote Sensing by the Swiss artist and video director Ursula Biemann traces the routes and reasons of women who migrate into the global sex industry. Taking a geographical approach to trafficking, the video develops a particular visual language generated by new media and satellite technologies, which traces the migration of women in the age of digital images.
All stills are taken from the video that was shot in the Philippines, Thailand, California, and the German–Czech border.
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Biemann, U. Remotely sensed: a topography of the global sex trade. Fem Rev 70, 75–88 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400005
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400005