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Caspar Heinemann is an artist, poet and twinky butch anarcho-communist mystic based in Berlin. Their interests include critical occultism, gay biosemiotics, and countercultural mythology. Recent events include readings at the Baltic Triennial, Serpentine Miracle Marathon, Basis voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht, and the ICA, London. They have recently exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, and Outpost Gallery, Norwich. 

Dr Andrea Phillips is PARSE Professor of Art and Head of Research at the Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg. Andrea lectures and writes about the economic and social construction of publics within contemporary art, the manipulation of forms of participation and the potential of forms of political, architectural and social reorganization within artistic and curatorial culture.

Samia Henni is an architect and an anti-colonial writer. Her research and writings focus on the intersection between colonial policies, military measures, and the expanded field of architecture and planning. She teaches Research Practice at CCC since 2016. She also teaches at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich. She holds a PhD in the history and theory of art and architecture from the ETH Zurich. Her dissertation examined French psychological and spatial counterinsurgency operations in colonized Algeria during the Algerian Revolution (1954–1962). Ongoing research projects include: Paris and the Algerian Desert, which investigates French transformation and exploitation of the Algerian Sahara and the forced resettlement of nomadic populations after the Second World War; Discreet Violence, Architecture and the French War in Algeria, a traveling exhibition that scrutinizes French military propaganda visual records produced in the fifties and sixties; and the Algerian Pavilion, nomadic and mutating forms of featuring colonialism and warfare, founded in the aftermath of the approval followed by a refusal of an Algerian governmental institution to exhibit certain colonial historical episodes.

Anselm Franke is Head of the Visual Arts department at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, where he was part of the curatorial team of the Anthropocene Project and organised exhibitions such as Animism (2012), and together with Diedrich Diederichsen The Whole Earth (2013), Forensis together with Eyal Weizman (2014) and Ape Culture together with Hila Peleg (2015). He was chief curator of the Taipei Biennale 2012 and the Shanghai Biennale 2014. He completed his PhD at Goldsmith College in London in 2015.

Griselda Pollock was born in South Africa, grew up in Canada and is Professor of the Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of Centre for Cultural Analysis, History, and Theory at the University of Leeds. Her most recent publications include Concentrationary Imaginaries: Imaginaries of Violence and the Violation of the Human (editor, with Max Silverman, 2015), After-affects | after-images. Trauma and aesthetic transformation in the virtual feminist museum (author, 2013), Visual Politics and Psychoanalysis: Art & the Image in Post-Traumatic Cultures (editor, 2013), Digital and Other Virtualities: Renegotating the Image (editor, with Antony Bryant, 2010), The Sacred and the Feminine: Imagination and Sexual Difference (editor, with Victoria Turvey-Sauron, 2008), Museums after Modernism (editor, with Joyce Zemans, 2007), and Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum Time, Space and the Archive (2007).

Eyal Weizman is an architect, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures, and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2011, he also directs Forensic Architecture, whose collection FORENSIS was published by Sternberg Press in 2014. He is a founding member of the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine. His books include Mengele’s Skull (with Thomas Keenan at Sternberg Press, 2012), Forensic Architecture (dOCUMENTA13 notebook, 2012), The Least of all Possible Evils (Nottetempo 2009, Verso 2011), Hollow Land (Verso, 2007), A Civilian Occupation (Verso, 2003), the series Territories 1,2 and 3, Yellow Rhythms and many articles in journals, magazines and edited books. He has worked with a variety of NGOs worldwide, and was a member of the B’Tselem board of directors. He lectured, curated and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide.

Theory Fiction
M1/M2
English

Kodwo Eshun

The Theory Fiction Seminar for 2021-2022 will focus upon a close reading of Octavia E. Butler’s 1980 novel Wild Seed which can be understood as a thought experiment on the intertemporal dynamics of extrapolation, exploitation, evolution and enslavement. The collective reading of Wild Seed by the Seminar will function as a kind of libretto for an engagement with one scene from Wild Seed. This collectively selected scene will be notated, recited, voiced, performed, projected, videoed, recorded and amplified for a recital that situates itself at the ambiguous intersection between the formats of performance-lecture, sound-work, audio-essay, opera and podcast.

Janis Schroeder is an artist and researcher working with video, photography, artist books and essays. His research and artistic practice is about the influence and language of image montage. He uses the video essay as a niche form of knowledge production and representation to take a critical view on the power relations within these images. In an ecosophical approach, he works on media archaeology and anthropogenic impact through manmade urban environments. After earning his BA in Visual Arts (Writing) from the Geneva University of Art and Design/HEAD, he completed an MA in Critical, Curatorial, Cross-Cultural and Cybermedia Studies (CCC) in 2013. He is currently a tutor in electronic media with the research-based master programme CCC at HEAD, presenting seminars on Situated Art Practices and co-coordinating the programme’s reading group in collaboration with his colleague Cécile Boss. He contributes to the research project The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva (TAAG), directed by Professor Gene Ray.

Catherine Quéloz, professor in the history/theory of art and Cultural Studies, is specialized in the conceptual discursive and interventionist art practices informed by gender and postcolonial issues. She is Honorary Professor of Haute d’école d’art et design (HEAD) Geneva. Initiator of a Curatorial Programme (1987), she is the cofounder in 2000, together with Liliane Schneiter, of CCC Research-Based Master Programme and Pre-Doctorate/PhD Seminar at Geneva University of Art and Design. She is currently co-leading (with Pierre Hazan) a research project supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) on art practices and politics of memory. She collaborates to two ongoing research projects, one on the Emerging Cultures of Sustainability (ECoS) and the other one on alternative pedagogies in the economic system of education.

Eric Philippoz is a visual artist working with video, installation, drawing, performance and text. He holds a Bachelor from the Haute école d’art et de design de Genève (art/medias) and a Master-degree from the ArtEZ Dutch Art Institute (Arnhem, The Netherlands). Recently, he initiated the project “Hotel Philippoz”, a residency and art events programme located in his grandmother’s house undergoing full renovations. Within a year, twelve international artists stayed at “Hotel Philippoz” and engaged a dialogue with the place and its memory. As an assistant-coordinator, he is responsible for the one-year colloquium “Thinking under Turbulence” that frames the curriculum during the transition of the CCC Master Programme in 2015/16.