“All Monuments Must Fall.” Four words, calling out and calling up. An indictment of police terror, a demand for an end to impunity. The Critical Studies Seminar of the CCC Research-based Master…
For 25 years, Geneva benefited from a squat scene that was rich and crucial, both socially and culturally. The squats were occupied under various legal arrangements, defying real-estate speculation. The authors of…
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…
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.…
Held on Monday March 22nd, the 2021 edition of the Master Symposium was a collective all-day event organised by the HEAD’s MA in Visual Arts Department: Work.Master, CCC, and TRANS. This year,…
Head to head is a series of filmed portraits of teachers, researchers, artists and designers active at the HEAD – Genève. The portraits allow them to speak about their often brilliant careers…
This Talking Heads delocalised online gave the floor to artist and researcher Bahar Noorizadeh, who considers the alternatives that stem from art and art-research to block the machine-mania running our future. To…
This third part of the Grand Tour memories is dedicated to the work of Loana Gatti, who graduated from the CCC research Master’s Programme. In her Master’s Thesis, titled “Exploring Alternatives: counterattack…
This edition features a selection of thesis completed in 2019 and 2020 in the HEAD – Genève's different Master’s orientations. The selection is a testimony to the diversity of issues at stake,…
In the Master’s thesis she completed in 2019 within the framework of the CCC, Laila A. Torres Mendieta uses the performativity of fiction theory to create what she calls “fissures” in the…