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.