Through close-ups, portraits, events from popular culture and mass culture, and examinations of « cold cases », among other things, this course exposes dark and hidden corners of the history of design and art. By taking up the notion of investigation and offering a detective approach, this masterclass proposes to closely examine specific case studies and even murderers as designers and artists of the extreme. The course re-establishes the links between the artist-designer, the investigator, and the historian, as « being a critic implies being ready to become a criminal, or at least being ready to actively examine crime ».
The course functions as a time machine, inviting the reconstruction of an art history written by those who won and omitted what they considered to be their defeat. In exchange, the course positions itself on the side of the defeated, states of non-resolution, and calls for rethinking a new history. This reconfiguration at the horizon of new margins reinvigorates the work of interpretation; designers and artists find themselves better equipped to revisit history as allies to the ignored and the humiliated. « Domestic Psycho » thus takes a step aside and asserts the importance of personal, original, and revolutionary perspectives.