27.11.2020
Head to Head VI – Doreen Mende
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…
Category : decolonization
15.06.2020
rano rano, naming, listening to, refusing the coloniality of the exhibitionary complex
Master Thesis by Léa Thaïs Genoud
The research conducted by Léa Genoud within the framework of the CCC Master’s research programme in 2019 is a reflection on the coloniality of the museum – a product of Western imperialist…
Fine arts, CCC Research-based Master Programme, Fine arts, Fine arts, MA TRANS - Art, education, engagement, Research Institute for Art and Design, Fine arts, Work.Master – Contemporary Artistic Practices
24.06.2019
ISSUE #2 – Common denominator
Art in the ruins of modernity
In William Turner’s "Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On" (1840), sublime, unrelenting nature meets the revolting behaviour of men treating other men as refundable commodities. Images of black…
22.06.2019
Double Bound Possession Master Symposium – Introduction
Avery Gordon in conversation with Anselm Franke
In English, the word “possession” has two divergent meanings, perhaps not quite accidentally. It’s earliest sense is taking possession or occupation, which becomes legal property. The second meaning is of a thing…