Biography
Gene Ray is Associate Professor in the CCC Research-based Master Program at HEAD – Genève/Geneva School of Art and Design (HES-SO). Ray is author of Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory (2005, 2010), co-editor of Art and Contemporary Critical Practice (2009) and Critique of Creativity (2011), and author of essays for journals including South as a State of Mind, Third Text, Brumaria, Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, Left Curve, Historical Materialism, and Yale Journal of Criticism. From 2016-2018, he was project director of The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva.
Contents
15.05.2023
Rural Riots, Animist Rituals and Teaching from the Territory
A conversation with the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
A teacher in the CCC Master’s Research Programme and a researcher at HEAD – Genève, Gene Ray is interested in radical practices of art and activism in a time of multiple social…
08.06.2021
All Monuments Must Fall
Thinking Through the Proposition. By Gene Ray
In this introduction, Gene Ray (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) reviews a series of recent events, mostly related to the Black Lives Matter movement, which may suggest that a new iconoclasm has begun.…
08.06.2021
Justice Afoot
Communing with the Friends of Acoma. By Gene Ray
One night in 1998, a collective amputated the foot of an equestrian statue of Juan de Oñate in New Mexico. In this article, Gene Ray examines the multiple echoes of this iconoclastic…
08.06.2021
Ode to an Empty Plinth
Iconoclasm by Other Means. By Gene Ray
In a 1997 issue of October journal devoted to the Situationists, T.J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith rejected the narrative that, in the early 1960s, the SI renounced art in favour of politics.…
24.06.2019
Diasporas of the So-Called Anthropocene
Notes in the Margins of "The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva" - An essay by Gene Ray (HES-SO)
Gene Ray (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) calls for a post-modernism that would fully overcome capitalist modernity and its catastrophes. From a reading of Walter Benjamin’s Thesis on the Philosophy of History and…