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Denis Pernet is a curator and writer educated as an artist at Ecole supérieure des beaux-arts Geneva where is was an assistant for three years. For more than ten years he has worked as a curator of exhibitions and presentations on contemporary art, film, video and sound, with a focus on transdisciplinary formats. Working as an independent curator he began his institutional career at Geneva Contemporary Art Center where he curated numerous exhibitions by emerging artists, as well as exhibitions that linked to contemporary discourses.
Currently, he is director of « La nuit des musées » in Lausanne. He has also edited numerous catalogs in the field of contemporary art, and has collaborated to several art magazines.

Aymon Kreil is an anthropologist. He is currently a researcher at UFSP Asian und Europa of University of Zurich as well as a visiting lecturer at CCC Research-Based Master Programme. His doctoral research thesis, accomplished at EHESS (Paris) in co-supervision with University of Neuchatel, is entitled Du rapport au dire. Sexe, amour et discours d’expertise au Caire (2012). In addition to gender and sex­uality, his researches are also dealing with religious authority, class distinctions and the Egyptian understandings of the domain of politics.

Cécile Boss, performs research by means of art (video, performance and writing). She holds a BA in Visual Arts and a Master from the CCC Programme at Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD). For her Master thesis and film Life is not living (2013), her research areas were balanced against the psychiatric treatment and confinement to the world of work and care. In parallel she has undertaken in collaboration with Melanie Borès an intensive study of one thesis from Walter Benjamin’s On the Concept of History, in connection with the research project Politics of Memory and Art Practices: The Role of Art in Peace and Reconstruction Processes [PIMPA/PPR]. Currently she works on the potentials for memorialization offered by the video essay form in the technologized capitalist context. As an assistant in the CCC Programme, she coordinates  the reading group seminar with colleague Janis Schroeder.

Reading Group
M1/M2
French/English

Julie Marmet
Nayansaku Mufwankolo (they/them)

Début : 21 Octobre 2020, 10h

Le Groupe de Lecture est un moment d’échange consacré à la lecture attentive de documents textuels et audiovisuels. Il vise à (re)penser les systèmes de croyances hégémoniques, afin de démêler collectivement les concepts et les idées, et d’ouvrir un espace de réflexion commun. Cette année, le groupe de lecture commencera par étudier le cadre général et systémique des mécanismes de domination, en allant vers des ramifications plus intersectionnelles et inclusives. De nécropouvoir/biopouvoir aux questions de décolonisation, en passant par la déconstruction du paradigme de l'”humain”, vers un positionnement militant de la recherche par le biais de l’art. Touxtes les participant·e·x·s sont invité·e·x·s à apporter les contributions personnelles qu’iels jugent pertinentes pour la discussion en cours, ainsi qu’à partager des documents qui pourraient être utilisés pour orienter la conversation vers de nouveaux horizons.

Yoneda Lemma connects the universal world of functors to the universal world of morphisms. Yoneda Lemma is Xenofeminist thinker, artist and archaeologist, Katrina Burch, practicing music in order to remember the universe. Music contains revolutionary thinking; sounding with the universe is a fulcrum for earth’s evolution. The aesthetic science of digital music ought to give back to earth, for earth affords it an objective position equal to that of any hard science. Yoneda Lemma’s dense and complex harmonic layers dig into the sound, shifting elements from one to another.

Laboria Cuboniks (b. 2014) is a polymorphous xenofeminist collective, whose members include Amy Ireland, Diann Bauer, Helen Hester (who will be present), Katrina Burch (who will be present), Lucca Fraser, and Patricia Reed. As an anagram of the “Nicolas Bourbaki” group of mathematicians, Cuboniks also advances an affirmation of abstraction as an episto-political necessity for 21st century claims on equality. Espousing reason and vigorous anti-naturalism, she seeks to dismantle gender implicitly. Cuboniks is a multi-taloned, tetraheaded creature uncomfortably navigating the fields of art, design, architecture, archeology, philosophy, techno-feminism, sexuality studies, digital music, translation, writing and regular experiments with the use of evolutionary algorithms in offensive cybersecurity.

Gene Ray is Associate Professor in the CCC Research-based Master Program at HEAD-Genève/Geneva School of Art and Design. He is Project Director of the ongoing HEAD/SNSF-supported collective research project The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva (TAAG), which studies responses to a changing climate and planet among human and nonhuman assemblages in the city and region Geneva. Ray is author of Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory (2005, 2010), co-editor of Art and Contemporary Critical Practice (2009) and Critique of Creativity (2011), and author of essays for journals including Third Text, Brumaria, Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, Left Curve, Historical Materialism, and Yale Journal of Criticism.  His current individual research explores embodied relations to place and the more-than-human, and reflects on modern processes of eco-genocide by constellating settler-colonial histories and legacies, extinction, art, critical theory, and Indigenous knowledges. This research is informed by practical collaborations with the Council of the Original Miccosukee Simanolee Nation Aboriginal Peoples and artist-activist Rozalinda Borcilă. His writings in this context, in South as a State of Mind 8 and South as a State Mind 9 for documenta 14 (2017), try to activate and transform the positionalities of his South Florida settler background, and seek ways of bearing, through language and other politicized practices, the embodied knowledges of local eco-genocide.

Armin Linke was born in 1966 and lives in Milan and Berlin. As a photographer and filmmaker he combines a range of contemporary image-processing technologies in order to blur the borders between fiction and reality. His artistic practice is concerned with different possibilities of dealing with photographic archives and their respective manifestations, as well as with the interrelations and transformative powers between urban, architectural or spatial functions and the human beings interacting with these environments. He was Research Affiliate at MIT Visual Arts Program Cambridge, guest professor at the IUAV Arts and Design University in Venice and is currently professor at the HfG Karlsruhe. Solo exhibitions (selection): ZKM Karlsruhe (2015); MAXXI, Roma (2010), Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen (2009). Group exhibitions (selection): KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin (2015); BAK Utrecht (2015); Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade + Centre Pompidou Metz (2014); Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art + Haus der Kunst, Munich (2011); International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam (2010) + Bienal de São Paulo (2008). Prizes: 9. Biennale di Architettura, Venezia + Graz Architecture Film Festival. During 2013 and 2014, Armin Linke, together with Territorial Agency and Anselm Franke, was executing the Anthropocene Observatory video series at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.

Grant Watson is a curator and researcher based in London, he is Tutor in Curatorial Theory on the MA Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art. Further recent projects include Practice International (Iaspis Sweden, Casco Utrecht, Raw Material Dakar), Social Fabric (Iniva London, Lunds Konsthal and Bhau Daji Lad Museum Mumbai) and Keywords: Art Culture and Society in 1980s Britain (Tate Liverpool). He is a PhD candidate in Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, London.

Françoise Vergès holds the Chair “Global South(s),” Collège d’études mondiales, Paris. Vergès grew up in Reunion Island in a communist, anti-colonialist and feminist family. In the 1970s–1980s, she was a journalist in a feminist monthly and weekly, an editor in a feminist publishing house in France and worked in anti-racist and anti-imperialist movements. She has written extensively on vernacular practices, memories of colonial slavery and colonialism, psychoanalysis, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and on processes of creolization in the Indian Ocean world. Between 2000 and 2010, she was Head of the scientific and cultural program for a forthcoming museum in Reunion Island for which she advocated the idea of a “museum without objects.” Between 2009 and 2012, she was president of the Committee for the Memory and History of Slavery in France, created in application of the May 21st 2001 Law (Loi Taubira) recognizing slave trade and slavery as “crime against humanity.” Beside her activism-based writings, Françoise Vergès is author of moving-image documentaries, collaborated with filmmakers and artists and has been working as an independent curator.