[Kunst Afrikas] Einladung in das Kolloquium zur Kunst Afrikas | SASHA HUBER: Reparative Interventions: Renegotiating Archive, Memory and Place (3.1. 18 Uhr c.t., online)

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Liebe Studierende der Abteilung Kunst Afrikas, liebe Freund*innen des Kolloquiums,

nach ein paar hoffentlich erholsamen und besinnlichen Weihnachtsfeiertagen wünschen wir Ihnen einen gesunden Rutsch ins neue Jahr und nur das Beste für 2023.
Das Kolloquium zur Kunst Afrikas wird gleich am ersten Dienstag des Jahres online mit der Künstlerin Sasha Huber beginnen. Wir laden Sie sehr herzlich zu Vortrag und anschließender Diskussion ein. Interessierte Gäste sind wie immer ebenfalls sehr herzlich willkommen.

SASHA HUBER
Reparative Interventions: Renegotiating Archive, Memory and Place

Zeit: 18.00 Uhr c.t., Dienstag, 3. Januar 2023
Ort: online unter https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=mbd1e1764a68dc6d8da860228feb5e26f


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1Sasha Huber, Rentyhorn, Switzerland, 2008.

Reparative Interventions Renegotiating Archive, Memory and Place

In her presentation, Sasha Huber will speak about her artistic research and engagement within the cultural-activist campaign "Demounting Louis Agassiz" and how ethics play a role in it. The campaign advocated for the Agassizhorn mountain in the Swiss Alps to be renamed the "Rentyhorn". The campaign was launched in Switzerland in 2007, coinciding with the bicentenary of the birth of Louis Agassiz (1807-1873). Exhibitions celebrating the great naturalist continually failed to display his life and works in their entirety. The focus was based on his merits in glaciology, ice age theory, and ichthyology. The aim of the campaign was to raise awareness of the racial theories that he had advocated right up to the US government level and which made him one of the 19th century's most influential racists.
As a "Demounting Louis Agassiz" committee member, Sasha started her artistic research in 2008 and has since developed an ongoing multidisciplinary and collaborative body of work around the world. This long-term endeavour is concerned with colonial traces and memory from a decolonial perspective and how those traces impact our present and future while finding ways in contributing to the healing and caring of the colonial wounds.

Short bio

Sasha Huber is a Helsinki-based internationally recognised visual artist-researcher of Swiss-Haitian heritage. Huber's work is concerned with the politics of memory and belonging in relation to colonial residue left in the environment. Connecting history and the present, she uses and responds to archival material within a layered creative practice that encompasses performance-based reparative interventions, video, photography, and collaborations. Huber also usurps the staple gun, aware of its symbolic significance as a weapon, while offering the potential to renegotiate unequal power dynamics (pain-things). Known for her artistic research contribution to the "Demounting Louis Agassiz" campaign, she is aiming at dismantling the glaciologist's contentious racist heritage. She holds an MA in visual culture from the Aalto University in Helsinki and is presently undertaking a practice-based PhD at the Zurich University of the Arts in artistic research. Huber has had solo exhibitions, joined short film festivals and residencies around the world, and participated in international exhibitions, including the 56th Venice Biennial in 2015. In 2018 Huber was the recipient of the State Art Award by the Arts Promotion Center Finland.
>From 2021-2024 her work is touring under the title "You Name It" and is produced by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto and Autograph in London. A book with the same title was published by Mousse Publishing.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Celia Schmidt
Im Namen der gesamten Abteilung zur Kunstgeschichte Afrikas

Freie Universität Berlin
FB Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
Kunsthistorisches Institut
Abteilung Kunst Afrikas
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