In this introduction, Gene Ray reviews a series of recent events, mostly related to the Black Lives Matter movement, which may suggest that a new iconoclasm has begun. Ray associates this aggressive…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
In a country like Spain, where the memory of Christopher Columbus is regularly brandished as a national cement and source of pride – and with the institution of monarchy in decline –…
Like a dialogue between languages, this bilingual Spanish-English text also takes the form of a song and then a harangue. The text revisits Chilean history through the demonstrations against social inequality that…
Sara Bissen compares the psychological trauma left by her experience of sometimes violent historical events in the former Soviet zone – where a series of brutal regime changes were punctuated by the…
The liquid element is omnipresent in Geneva, a city known for its harbour, its Jet d’Eau, rivers and fountains. Yet numerous infrastructures also channel and domesticate this water in a draconian way.…
Based on a neighbourhood dispute between an Arab man who listens to loud music at night and an unidentified person who demands silence, Balam Ronan Simon Delgado reflects on the politics of…