11.05.2022
Radical acts of love
In addition to being one of the world’s most polluting industries, fashion subjects its workers to some of the most degrading working conditions. In the face of these abuses, consumer mobilisation remains…
Category : CCC Research-based Master Programme
04.04.2022
No Monument
A CCC alumna, artist and activist, Marisa Cornejo made a film on the events that took place on Santiago’s Plaza Italia, which became the Plaza de la Dignidad on the 18th of…
07.02.2022
Femmage to Marion von Osten
The late artist-curator is remembered by Lucie Kolb, Pauline Boudry and Doreen Mende
This article pays tribute to the artist, exhibition organiser and researcher Marion von Osten, who passed away in November 2020. A pioneer both in the field of research-based practice and in her…
25.10.2021
ISSUE #10 – The controversial institutionalisation of artistic research
Comments on the Vienna Declaration
This focus critically examines an initiative for a European framework for artistic research that could serve as a roadmap for government policies. It proposes other ways of regarding art research, less standardized…
24.10.2021
Principles for an open-ended artistic research
Statements by Anthony Masure and Doreen Mende
As a member of one of the signatory umbrella organizations of the Vienna Declaration on Artistic Research – the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) – the HEAD – Genève is indirectly linked…
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
Monuments of the Mind
By Phoebe-Lin Elnan
In 1996, shortly before the handover of Hong Kong to China, an artist sprayed the statue of Queen Victoria with red paint and disfigured it with a hammer. The meaning of this…
08.06.2021
Dismantle Louis Agassiz
Embedded racism at the near side of the moon. By Roman Karrer
In this text, Roman Karrer examines the way in which the names of streets, squares or mountains lend such places a symbolic dimension. The name of the botanist and zoologist Louis Agassiz,…
08.06.2021
Monuments Must Be Edited
By Basile Collet
Since its construction in 1909, the Reformers’ Wall in Geneva’s Parc des Bastions has been vandalised numerous times. Based on this history of tagging and painting, Basile Collet considers the way in…
08.06.2021
All Revolutions Must Be Collective
A Podcast recorded by Garance Bonard, Cecilia Moya Rivera and Camille Shirin Zaerpour
But what must fall? This podcast interviews members of French-speaking Swiss resistance collectives who stand against forms of oppression such as racism, patriarchy and police authority. This question broadens the notion of…