Through close-ups, portraits, events from popular culture and mass culture, examinations of « cold cases », etc., this course exposes dark and hidden zones of the history of design and art. By taking up investigation and offering a detective approach, this masterclass proposes to examine closely precise case studies and even murderers as so many designers and artists of the extreme. The course renews the links between the artist-designer, the investigator, and the historian, for « to be a critic implies that one be ready to become a criminal, or at least that one be ready to actively examine crime ».
The course functions as a time machine and invites a re-construction of a history of the arts written by the sole victors, who omitted what they considered to embody defeat. In exchange, this course places itself on the side of the vanquished, of states of non-resolution, and calls for re-thinking a new history. This recomposition on the horizon of new margins revives the work of interpretation; designers and artists thereby find themselves better equipped to revisit history as friends of the ignored and the humiliated. « Domestic Psycho » thus takes a step aside and asserts the importance of personal, unprecedented, and revolutionary points of view.