Blandine Casen is a French video artist and linguist currently based in Berlin. She studied German and linguistics at Paris Nanterre University and in Rouen (France), and has taught French, German, and Spanish in France, Germany, and Colombia.
In 2007, she began working with visual language, developing a practice centered on moving image and its expanded forms. Her work spans video creation, installation, live projection, narration, editing, broadcasting, participatory workshops, and collective production.
A central aspect of her practice is collective intelligence, which informs both her artistic and educational approaches. She often works through horizontal and collaborative processes, where creation is shared and distributed across participants.
She has collaborated with a wide range of groups and contexts, including communities considered as minorities or marginalized groups: disabled performers (Thikwa Theater), women’s collectives (compagnie La Fêlure, Marseille), young audiences (Easy as Peasy, Expedition Metropolis; Minimantis, participatory Kung Fu film project), and individuals with mental health experiences (So viel Heimat ist in mir, Theresa Zinser).
While her early work focused on filming and editing cultural performances such as theater, circus, concerts, and live events, her practice has gradually expanded toward live visual performance, particularly through real-time projections integrated into stage works.
Recent collective projects include Plankton TV (produced with Mottili Theater), Fluxlab (a collaboration with video artist Marcello Busato developing live audiovisual environments for choirs through digital projection and analog image processing), and Lingo Bingo (a collaborative project exploring language, participation, and collective learning through playful and performative formats).
Contact:
blanchebln[at]posteo.de