Sébastien Berthier

Iaspis Open Studios

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Welcome to the Open Studios at Iaspis.

Performance Friday the 24th at 15.15.

Wondercool Copenhagen

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What a surprise to discover within Dagens Nyheter an add for the city of Copenhagen with a picture of our work Untied (Flag) !

NEU / NOW Festival

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In November, my film Occidental Totems will be part of the NEU/NOW Festival in Tallin.

IASPIS Residency

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In a residency at IASPIS – Stockholm, in order to develop the new project: The Stalin of Otakar Švec.

The Stalin of Otakar Švec

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Slipping Away

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Text about the exhibition “Slipping Away” in Etikett, Malmö by Emil Nilsson

Pdf of the project

Postscript

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Sébastien Berthier and Shirin Sabahi in Conversation
On the new politics of memory in an ethnographic museum and a utopian housing project.

Artist Book, 34 pages, edition of 100, Stockholm, 2009
Exhibited at Botkyrka Konsthall, Tumba, Sweden : Labyrint 09 – Writings and Observations, Curated by Joanna Sandell and Pia Sandström
PDF of the project

About my artistic practice

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My artistic practice is primarily based on research within fields that I do not have a pre-existent expertise or knowledge. Acting as an observer, I construct my own reflections by selecting, comparing, interpreting and weaving different narrative elements through a free “ play of associations and dissociations” *. As a stance but also as an object of critique, I deconstruct through my work master discourses: the ones of the truth makers who designate who has agency, a voice in the political sphere and who is devoid of it. These authoritarian movements can be found under the name of positive discrimination and race-based census — as in my work “ De-nigrations” — or in the mystification of Karl Marx’s remnants by the Communist Party — as in “ The Tombstone Where (…)” . In my practice I investigate blind spots of history, moments when men seem to be struck by amnesia, to bring critical enlightenings. In order to do so, I engage in contemporary political questions, but at the same time conflate this social awareness with historical references sprung from art history. In an associative way, I confront Otto Neurath’s universal visual language (Isotype) with prejudices embodied by the census of a population or, for an upcoming project, Jacob Epstein’s modern sculptures within the Western post-colonial influence. I am interested in combining found images, archival material, research documents in my works which question the ground upon which ‘objectivity’ relies.

* “ Being a spectator is not a condition we have to change : It is our normal condition. We enact a free play of associations and dissociations also as a spectator.” , Jacques Rancière, The Emancipated Spectator, La Fabrique Editions, 2008

Can The Sensible Have An Effect On Philosophy ?

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About Rancière’s Aesthetical Regime and Badiou Inaesthetics.

Master thesis, 39 pages, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette, 2009

Memorandum LD

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Critical history of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture projects in Paris, 228 pages, edition of 30, Office for Metropolitan Architecture – Rem Koolhaas, Rotterdam, 2008