Blandine Casen is a french video artist and linguist who lives currently in Berlin. She studied German and linguistics in Paris X Nanterre and in Rouen (France) and taught French, German, and Spanish in France, Germany and Colombia.
In 2007 she discovers a new form of expression : the visual language. The work on-with video implies for her a whole range of fields of action and forms of expression: conception, narration, shooting, editing, live projection, installation, broadcasting, participative workshops, and collective work. A key concept in her work is the collective intelligence. That is why her artistique expression is mostly interwoven with collective creations and is reflected in her horizontal educational work.
In this spirit, she worked with a diversity of people considered as minorities such as so called disabled people (Thikwa Theater), women (companie la felure, Marseille), girls (easy as peasy, Expedition Metropolis; Minimantis, participative Kung Fu film project) and persons with mental issues (So viel Heimat ist in mir, Theresa Zinser). Whereas in the beginning she focused on filming and editing different types of cultural events such as theater and circus shows, concerts, performances, in the last years she started to be more involved in the performances themself through live projections. One of her recent collective film creations is Plankton TV produced by Mottili Theater.
Contact:
blanchebln[at]posteo.de