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
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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.…
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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…