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…
“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.…
In this podcast combined with a large body of images, Charlotte Laubard explores what she calls the ‘self-taught enigma.’ Multiform, this enigma questions the modes of art learning and artistic invention as…
Using the notions of mind-set and skill-set, Lynne Cooke suggests combining a cognitive approach with an anthropological reading in order to critically analyse the career and reception of several American self-taught artists.
Portrayed as an absolute oddity, both solitary and providential, the American singer-songwriter and cartoonist Daniel Johnston (1961-2019) has often been labelled an outsider, ‘naïve’ and ‘crude,’ by artistic historiography. Based on readings…
By evoking a series of discoveries made during her research on ‘informal’ or ‘unformatted’ learning, Hélène Bézille explores the socio-historical construction of the figure of the autodidact. She observes in particular how…
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,…