Parsley
Huber Sasha, Saarikko Petri
The tragic Parsley Massacre event took place in the Dominican Republic during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in 1937. The word perejil was used to identify and separate Afro-Dominicans from Afro-Haitians. The pronunciation of the Spanish word parsley (perejil) determined their fate. The genocidal event influences Haiti still today.
Production Year
2017
Duration
00:18:00
Tyyppi
Asiasana
dance (performing arts), genocide, history, homicides, music, oppression, performances, political art, Spanish language, violence (activity)
Original Title
Perejil
English Title
Parsley
Production Countries
Haiti,Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Sasha Huber (Author), Petri Saarikko (Author), Gasner François (Cinematographer), David Difficile (Cinematographer), Petri Saarikko (Cinematographer), Gethcé Pierre (Composer), Sasha Huber (Director), Petri Saarikko (Director), André Miraklin (Dramaturgi), Julius Salo (Editor), Le Centre D’Art (Producer), André Miraklin (Script), Sasha Huber (Script), Eddy Bissainthe (Script), Gérald Bellevue (Script), Théophilo Jarbath (Script), Vincent Benece (Script), Richard Etienne (Script), Jonathan Registre (Script), Gerry Sterling (Script), Destin Derilus Best't (Script), Antoine Godson (Script), Josué Duel (Script), Etienne Jean Stanley (Script), Gethcé Pierre (Script), Rubens Corneille (Script), Julius Salo (Sound Design), Petri Saarikko (Sound Design), Destin Derilus Best't (Actor), Gerry Sterling (Actor), Vincent Benece (Actor), Théophilo Jarbath (Actor), André Miraklin (Actor), Etienne Jean Stanley (Actor), Antoine Godson (Actor), Gethcé Pierre (Actor), Josué Duel (Actor), Richard Etienne (Actor), Gérald Bellevue (Actor), Jonathan Registre (Actor), Rubens Corneille (Actor), Sasha Huber (Actor), Eddy Bissainthe (Actor), Suomen Kulttuurirahasto (Funder), Fokal (Funder), Taiteen edistämiskeskus (Funder), MUU ry (Funder), Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso (Funder), Le Centre D’Art (Funder)
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Petri Saarikko
Born: 1973
Petri Saarikko (b. 1973) is Helsinki-based artist and designer. In his site-specific installations, Saarikko combines social commentary with his work as a designer and his background in new media. His work is highly performative in nature. Saarikko does not shy away from provocation. He often challenges ideas of national identity, artistic authorship or official political discourses by changing their context and thus showing the true, artificial nature of these phenomena. His work seeks to expose power relations, to make room for individual narratives, and takes a stand on behalf of equality. Saarikko collaborates regularly with his partner Sasha Huber Saarikko.
6 works
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.
12 works