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. 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 comprehensive book with the same title was published by Mousse Publishing in November 2022.
http://www.sashahuber.com/
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. 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 comprehensive book with the same title was published by Mousse Publishing in November 2022.
http://www.sashahuber.com/
Sasha Huber
laboratory speaker
Reparative Interventions Renegotiating Archive, Memory and Place
RECOMMENDED LINKS
Hartman, Saidiya. Venus in Two Acts. Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 1–14.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonising Methodologies - Research and Indigenous Peoples. Zed Books, Second Edition, 2012.
Willis, Brian. Black Bodies, White Science: Louis Agassiz's Slave Daguerreotypes. American Art, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 38-61. The University of Chicago Press.
Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake - On Blackness and Being, Duke University Press, 2016.
Hartman, Saidiya. Venus in Two Acts. Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 1–14.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonising Methodologies - Research and Indigenous Peoples. Zed Books, Second Edition, 2012.
Willis, Brian. Black Bodies, White Science: Louis Agassiz's Slave Daguerreotypes. American Art, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 38-61. The University of Chicago Press.
Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake - On Blackness and Being, Duke University Press, 2016.
