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To Redeem Hope
Interview with Stavros Stavrides
This wide-ranging interview with architect and activist Stavros Stavrides opens up the spatial and urban dimensions of commoning, while recognizing some of the most influential contemporary rural commons. From Athens to Gaza, and from Chiapas to Rojava…
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“The Thick Intelligence of the Commons”
Interview with Massimiliano Mollona
This lively and provocative discussion with anthropologist, curator and filmmaker Massimiliano Mollona considers commons as “a thick texture of life, where aesthetics and political economy cannot be separated from the consciousness of living in a non-…
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“Understanding the territory and the needs of the community”
Interview with Silvia Federici
In this engaging conversation, teacher, feminist activist and eminent theorist and historian of the commons Silvia Federici sets out her views on commoning and feminism, capitalist enclosure, enchantment and the Internet, the Zapatistas and eco-…
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Dossier #30
Arts of Commoning
[In this dossier are the first three interviews conducted in the context of the Arts of Commoning research project at HEAD – Genève. More will follow.]
Today, as contemporary globalized society continues to heat the planet and as the…
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Arts of Commoning
Introduction
In this publication, the authors introduce us to the issues at stake in their research-guided art project Arts of Commoning, from which this dossier originates.
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“Immense Capacities for Creative, Revolutionary Practice”
Interview with Peter Linebaugh
This dialogue with one of the preeminent historians of the Atlantic commons, ranges across the rich history of mutualist invention and solidarity, from the aesthetics of commoning to the resistance to industrial “counter-revolution,” from the Jacquard…
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“Commoning is the Art of Enactment”
Interview with Massimo De Angelis
In this wide-ranging conversation, Massimo De Angelis reflects on the commons as both a living tissue of everyday cooperation and a systemic force capable of reorganizing social reproduction beyond capitalism. Drawing from his forthcoming book The…
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An Alter-Politics of Love
Interview with Alexandros Kioupkiolis
In this deep-reaching dialogue, Alexandros Kioupkiolis sets out the logic of a counter-hegemonic strategy for advancing a commons-based eco-socialist politics, assesses the legacies of horizontally organized social movements, offers critical…
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Rural Riots, Animist Rituals and Teaching from the Territory
A Conversation with the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
A teacher in the CCC Master's Research Programme and a researcher at HEAD – Genève, Gene Ray is interested in radical practices of art and activism in a time of multiple social and ecological crises. He spoke with the artist, researcher and activist…
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Ode to an Empty Plinth
Iconoclasm by Other Means
In a 1997 issue of October journal devoted to the Situationists, T.J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith rejected the narrative that, in the early 1960s, the SI renounced art in favour of politics. In reality, the organisation only renounced…
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All Monuments Must Fall
Thinking Through the Proposition
In this introduction, Gene Ray (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) reviews a series of recent events, mostly related to the Black Lives Matter movement, which may suggest that a new iconoclasm has begun. Ray associates this aggressive way of questioning the…
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Dossier #8
All Monuments Must Fall: Episodes and Counterimages from a Present History of Iconoclasm
“All Monuments Must Fall.” Four words, calling out and calling up. An indictment of police terror, a demand for an end to impunity. A toppling of white supremacist, settler colonial patriarchs: Robert E. Lee and Christopher Columbus, Cecil Rhodes and…
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Justice Afoot
Communing with the Friends of Acoma
One night in 1998, a collective amputated the foot of an equestrian statue of Juan de Oñate in New Mexico. In this article, Gene Ray examines the multiple echoes of this iconoclastic act, a reference to the mutilation of indigenous Acoma people 400…
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Diasporas of the So-Called Anthropocene
Notes in the Margins of "The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva" - An essay by Gene Ray (HES-SO)
Gene Ray (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) calls for a post-modernism that would fully overcome capitalist modernity and its catastrophes. From a reading of Walter Benjamin’s Thesis on the Philosophy of History and Trauerspiel, Ray invokes…