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Sabine Jelinek, recently in New York on an artist's residency through the Austrian government, has been making work that assigns her feminist, social and political interests into a different contexts. Sabine's work has been shown in New York, London, Toronto, Australia, Singapore, Germany and was included in (hers) Video as a Female Terrain curated by Stella Rollig, in Austria in 2000. Sabine Jelinek lives and works in Vienna

The art group The Artists Village from Singapore invited me to take part in a project about the small island Pulau Ubin (Insel Ubin). The idea was that different artists go there to explore the island and make a work about it, which was presented then on location.

Pulau Ubin is the last place that remained untouched from the influence of a modern city life. As the business of the city state Singapore is linked with the American economy, it became one of the richest and modern countries in South-East Asia. Space is one of the most admirable treasures there, one of the reasons why the government started to demolish the infrastructure of Pulau Ubin, as it has happened to Sentosa Island and others before. Bit by bit they try to make it impossible for the inhabitants to live a normal life there. I went to the island a couple of times to explore the Island and all its beauty and I found one inhabitant, who was willing to tell me about politics in Singapore and the changes of her own life situation there.