Rentyhorn
Huber Sasha
In the work Rentyhorn, Huber renames a mountain that has been known by the name of an influential Swiss-born naturalist and racist from the late 1800s’, Louis Agassiz. The mountain's new name Rentyhorn commemorates Renty, a slave who Agassiz ordered to be photographed on a South Carolina plantation “to prove the inferiority of the black race”.
Production Year
2008
Duration
00:04:30
Asiasana
body image, documentarism, documentary films, environmental issues, experimental films, feminism, helicopters, landscape, media, media art, mountain ranges, mountains, nature, political art, racism, science, slavery, video art, video performances (art)
Original Title
Rentyhorn
Finnish Title
Rentyhorn
English Title
Rentyhorn
Production Countries
Switzerland,Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound
Yes
Cast
Siro Micheroli (Cinematographer), Sasha Huber (Author), Sasha Huber (Director), Eetu Vihervaara (Editor), Hans Fässler (Script), Sasha Huber (Actor), AVEK (Funder)
Press Photos
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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