Louis Who? What you should know about Louis Agassiz
Huber Sasha
In the Louis Who? What you should know about Louis Agassiz, the viewer is confronted by the history of colonialism and oppression as created by Louis Agassiz. Like a messenger from times past, Sasha Huber enters the picture on a gleaming black horse, telling the passers-by of Praça Agassiz, in the suburbs of Rio, about the person who gave the square its name: “Scientist, naturalist, glaciologist, influential racist, pioneering thinker of apartheid..."
Production Year
2010
Duration
00:03:50
Asiasana
animals, architecture, colonialism, documentarism, documentary films, environmental issues, experimental films, feminism, horse, horse riding, landscape, media art, nature, performance (art forms), science, urban space, video art, video performances (art)
Original Title
Louis Who? What you should know about Louis Agassiz
Finnish Title
Louis Who? What you should know about Louis Agassiz
English Title
Louis Who? What you should know about Louis Agassiz
Production Countries
Finland,Brazil
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound
Yes
Cast
Fernando Fernandes (Cinematographer), Jose Ferraro (Cinematographer), Sasha Huber (Author), Sasha Huber (Director), Fernando Teixeira (Editor), Erika Lôbo (Producer), Maria P.T. Machado (Script), Hans Fässler (Script), Sasha Huber (Actor), AVEK (Funder), Fernando Teixeira (Sound)
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Sasha Huber (CH/FI) is a Helsinki based multidisciplinary visual artist of Swiss-Haitian heritage. She works and presents her work internationally and is primarily concerned with the politics of memory and belonging, particularly in relation to colonial residue left in the environment. Sensitive to the subtle threads connecting history and the present, she uses and responds to archival material within a layered creative practice that encompasses performance-based interventions, video, photography, and collaborations. Huber is also claiming the compressed-air staple gun, aware of its symbolic significance as a weapon while offering the potential to renegotiate unequal power dynamics. Huber works regularly in a creative partnership with her partner artist Petri Saarikko. She holds an MA from the University of Art and Design Helsinki and is presently undertaking practice-based PhD studies.
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