Sleutelpublicaties
Bergs, S. (2023). Nelson Makengo’s Nuit Debout: Infrastructures Between Promise and Improvisation. Journal of African Cinemas, 15(2-3), 163-180. [DOI]
Bergs, S. (2022). “What does it mean to make a picture of the now?”: The Aesthetics of Co-presence in Maxime Jean-Baptiste’s Nou Voix and Moune Ô. Afterimage, 49(4), 14-25. [DOI]
Publicaties
2025
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Bergs, S. (2025). Mimesis and Mimicry: Contemporary Art, Commodification, and (Post-)Critique: Paper presented at CAA 113th Annual Conference. February 12-15 2025, New York.
Bergs, S., & Deodat, C. (2025). Projecting Spectres: Ghost Notes: Paper presented at conference Postcolonial Hauntologies: Art in the Presence – Absence of the Past, 5-7 March 2025, Amsterdam/Montreal.
Bergs, S. (2025). Grounding the Grid: On Saba Innab’s Tread Lightly – Leave no Trace: Paper presented at: ASCA Workshop 2025: Re-Imagining Universality in the Pluriverse, University of Amsterdam, May 26-28.
Bergs, S. (2025). The Shape and The Shadow: Prélude to a Screening by Nelson Makengo: Paper presented at conference Silhouettes, Shadows and Masks as Thinking Models: Reflecting with Fanon, Mbembe and Mudimbe. Jan 27–28, 2025, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut, Florence.
Bergs, S. (2025). As above, so below (and in-between): on ‘The Geopolitics of Infrastructure’. Web publication/site, Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd.. https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/reviews/as-above-so-below-and-in-between-on-the-geopolitics-of-infrastructure
Bergs, S. (2025). Hannah Black. The Directions. De witte raaf, 234, 25-27. https://www.dewitteraaf.be/artikel/hannah-black-the-directions/
Vakpublicaties
Bergs, S. (2025). The Politics of Picturing Operations: Mutable Cycles. In Mutable Cycles (pp. 28-31). Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
2024
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Bergs, S. (2024). Against autonomy as Idea. Radical Philosophy, (217), 97-100. https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/against-autonomy-as-idea [Portal]
Bergs, S. (2024). Basma al-Sharif. The Place Where I Was Condemned to Live. De witte raaf, 231, 27-29. https://www.dewitteraaf.be/artikel/basma-al-sharif-the-place-where-i-was-condemned-to-live/
Bergs, S. (2024). Usufructuaries of Earth. De witte raaf, 229, 31-33. https://www.dewitteraaf.be/artikel/usufructuaries-of-earth/
Bergs, S. (2024). Robin Vanbesien. Holding Rehearsals. De witte raaf, 228, 25. https://www.dewitteraaf.be/artikel/robin-vanbesien-holding-rehearsals/
Bergs, S. (2024). Open Skies of Night: On Caroline Déodat’s Sous le ciel des fétiches. Esse arts + opinions, 111, 28-31. https://esse.ca/en/open-skies-of-night-on-caroline-deodats-sous-le-ciel-des-fetiches/
2023
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Bergs, S. (2023). Infrastructure and/as Metaphor: In and Beyond Institutional Critique: Paper presented at 55th International AICA Congress: Contested Infrastructures, 13-17 Nov 2023, University of Kraków.
Bergs, S. (2023). Images of Coevalness: Paper presented at conference Not this time: Temporalities of ending, editing, and enduring. 24 May - 26 May 2023, University of Copenhagen.
Bergs, S. (2023). From Work to Mainframe: Lecture at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich.
Bergs, S. (2023). Nelson Makengo’s Nuit Debout and Toujours Debout: Infrastructure Between Promise and Improvisation: Paper presented at Association for Art History, Annual Conference 2023, University College London.
Bergs, S. (2023). Nelson Makengo’s Nuit Debout: Infrastructures Between Promise and Improvisation. Journal of African Cinemas, 15(2-3), 163-180. [DOI]
Vakpublicaties
Bergs, S. (2023). Images Mon Amour. De witte raaf, 221. https://www.dewitteraaf.be/artikel/images-mon-amour/
2022
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Bergs, S. (2022). “What does it mean to make a picture of the now?”: The Aesthetics of Co-presence in Maxime Jean-Baptiste’s Nou Voix and Moune Ô. Afterimage, 49(4), 14-25. [DOI]