Kader Attia grew up in Paris and in Algeria, and lives today in Berlin, Paris and Algiers. Preceding his studies in Paris and Barcelona, he spent several years in Congo and in South America. Kader Attia’s intercultural and interdisciplinary approach of research explores the perspective societies have on their history, especially as regards experiences of deprivation and suppression, violence and loss, and their traces in collective memory. In 2016, Kader Attia founded La Colonie, a space in Paris providing an agora for discussing decolonialisation of knowledge, attitudes and practices to de-compartmentalise knowledge by a transcultural, transdisciplinary and transgenerational approach. Kader Attia’s comprehensive solo show “Roots also Grow in Concrete” is currently on display at MacVal in Vitry-sur-Seine, after recent solo-exhibitions at the 57th Venice Biennial; Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts de Lausanne; Beirut Art Center; Whitechapel Gallery, London; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel. In 2016, Kader Attia was awarded with the Marcel Duchamp Prize, followed in 2017 by the Prize of the Miró Foundation, Barcelona, and the Yanghyun Art Prize, Seoul.
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Federica Martini
Federica Martini, PhD, is an art historian and curator. She is dean of Visual Arts at the Ecole cantonale d’art du Valais (ECAV) and a member of the artists-run space standard/deluxe, Lausanne. Previously, she was Head of the MAPS Master program at ECAV, and a member of the curatorial departments of the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Musée Jenisch Vevey, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts/Lausanne and the Festival des Urbaines. In 2015-16 she was a research fellow at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma.
Petra Köhle
Petra Köhle, artist, since 2018 Head of the MAPS Master program at ECAV. She has been developing her artistic work collaboratively with Nicolas Vermot since 2003. In stage-like settings they engage with repetition and translation, creating new scenarios. Their work has been shown at Palais de Tokyo in Paris Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt and performed as a contribution to the Nordic Research Pavilion in Venice. She is currently doing a collaborative PhD at University of the Arts in Linz and ZHdK.
Michael Marder
Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Spain & Professor at Large in the Humanities Institute at Diego Portales University (UDP), Chile. He is author of numerous articles and books in the fields of environmental philosophy, phenomenology, and political thought. His most recent monograph is Energy Dreams: Of Actuality (Columbia UP, 2017).
Patricia Reed
Patricia Reed is an artist, writer and designer based in Berlin. Her work concerns the entanglements between epistemology, diagrammatics and modeling with politics, adapted to planetary scales of cohabitation. Recent writings have been published in e-flux Architecture; _AH Journal; Cold War Cold World (Urbanomic); Reinventing Horizons (Tranzitdisplay); Moneylab (Inst. of Networked Cultures); and The Neurotic Turn (Repeater Books). Reed is also part of the techno-feminist working group Laboria Cuboniks.
Çağla E. Aykaç
Çağla E. Aykaç currently teaches in the Departments of Geography and Gender studies of Geneva University and in the CCC Research Master at HEAD Geneva. She holds a Phd in sociology and her research focuses on social movements, racisms and nationalism, Islam in Europe, and contemporary Turkey.
Caspar Heinemann
Caspar Heinemann is an artist, poet and twinky butch anarcho-communist mystic based in Berlin. Their interests include critical occultism, gay biosemiotics, and countercultural mythology. Recent events include readings at the Baltic Triennial, Serpentine Miracle Marathon, Basis voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht, and the ICA, London. They have recently exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, and Outpost Gallery, Norwich.
Susan Schuppli
Susan Schuppli is an artist and researcher based in London whose work examines material evidence from war and conflict to environmental disasters. Creative projects have been exhibited throughout Europe, Asia, Canada, and the US. She has published widely within the context of media and politics and is author of the forthcoming book, Material Witness (MIT Press). Schuppli is Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths and was previously a research fellow on the Forensic Architecture ERC project. She is a recipient of the ICP Infinity Award, 2016.
Charles Heller
Charles Heller is a researcher and filmmaker based in Geneva whose work has a long-standing focus on the politics of migration within and at the borders of Europe. In 2011, he co-founded the Forensic Oceanography research project that critically investigates the lethal effects of the militarized border regime and the politics of migration in the Mediterranean Sea, and in 2012 they co-founded WatchTheMed platform. Heller’s recent works include the “Liquid Traces” (2014) video, and the “Death by Rescue” (2016) report and video. Heller as been research fellow on the Forensic Architecture project of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is currently conducting a postdoctoral research supported by the Swiss National Fund (SNF). He was awarded a post-graduate diploma from CCC in 2005.
Samia Henni
Samia Henni is an architect and an anti-colonial writer. Her research and writings focus on the intersection between colonial policies, military measures, and the expanded field of architecture and planning. She teaches Research Practice at CCC since 2016. She also teaches at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich. She holds a PhD in the history and theory of art and architecture from the ETH Zurich. Her dissertation examined French psychological and spatial counterinsurgency operations in colonized Algeria during the Algerian Revolution (1954–1962). Ongoing research projects include: Paris and the Algerian Desert, which investigates French transformation and exploitation of the Algerian Sahara and the forced resettlement of nomadic populations after the Second World War; Discreet Violence, Architecture and the French War in Algeria, a traveling exhibition that scrutinizes French military propaganda visual records produced in the fifties and sixties; and the Algerian Pavilion, nomadic and mutating forms of featuring colonialism and warfare, founded in the aftermath of the approval followed by a refusal of an Algerian governmental institution to exhibit certain colonial historical episodes.