Konstfacks bibliotek

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*084  $aIbhe
*1001 $aBerthier, Sébastien
*24510$aOccidental totems$h[DVD-video] /$cSébastien Berthier
*260  $a[Stockholm]  :$b[Konstfack] ,$c2011
*300  $a1 DVD; 15 min.
*500  $aOccidental totems will immerse the viewer into the life of a controversial artist: Jacob Epstein. Pioneer of modern sculpture and mentor Henry Moore, Epstein carved on the facade of the South Rhodesian High commission (now known as the Zimbabve Embassy), a set of eighteen statues which got relentlessly mutilated by the representatives of the colonial power.
 For the 15 minute video, I decided to bring Epstein back to life so he could explain the dynamics of his work and his political hopes and assumptions. By conflating parts of his own biography, news reports of demonstrations that occurred in front of the building and my personal view upon the subject, a hybrid narrator will emerge and offer a new reading of colonialism and neo-colonial influence through the life of the sculptural work. By portraying this fictional Epstein in different archives and in front of the embassy, a metaphor is put into play between the emancipation of the people of Zimbabwe from the colonial yoke, with the liberations of statues - through their mutilation - from their obligation to represent Epstein's primitivist intention. An art story and a political history fuse.

*500  $aDonation
*500  $aExamensprojekt, Art in the Public Realm, Masterutbildning i Konst på Konstfack
*60014$aBerthier, Sébastien
*60014$aEpstein, Jacob,$d1880-1959
*653  $aVideokonst
*653  $aVideo art
*8520 $hTIMELINE Konstfacks videotek -  Students :
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