About

Alex Head’s work explores the impact of culture on our interior worlds. His work with Cultural Epigenetics has contributed to our understanding of how traumatic cultural exposure impacts us on the cellular level. He translates bodies of research into public events, drawing and print, and is interested in working with non-hierarchical networks of artists, researchers and citizens. His work is characterised by slippage and paradox across differing scale vectors and multiple temporalities. Pansexual bilingual dual national white cis male.

In his forthcoming book: 1001 Accurate Memories he explores the paradoxical terrain between material analysis and spiritual philosophy.

This seven year work is the authors story of one person, told by remembering the agents and actors significant to their life. His third book and third publisher in nine years, 1001 Accurate Memories rounds out a body of writing on art, magic and madness, the philosophy of change and the survivability of contemporary culture.

In three chapters the past, present and future are analysed through the lenses of class, disability and the human mind.

However the book is a testament to the accuracy of traumatic memories stored and recurrent within the body. Head suggests that the Trouble outlined in his 2016 theory of Deviant Knowledge, stems from the break between our feeling vagus nerve and the calculating, cerebral core of the human brain. In that, when these forms of knowing deviate, bad things happen.

Alex studied a Bachelors of Arts in Sculpture & Environmental Art at The Glasgow School of Art (2007), including an exchange programme at Pratt University, New York (2005). In 2023 he attained a Masters degree in Raumstrategien (Spatial Strategies), focusing on Fine Art and Political Theory, at Weißensee School of Art in Berlin, where he has lived and worked since 2011.

His 2021 book Ricochet has drawn approval from artistic, scientific, architectural and anthropological quarters.

Publications carried by:
Salon für Kunstbuch, Wien (AT), BATT Coop, Paris (FR), After8, Paris (FR), Giselle’s Books, Marseille (FR), bruno, Venice (IT), Stampa, Basel (CH), PUNCH, Bucharest (RO), Skylight, Los Angeles (USA), McNally Jackson, New York (USA), Mast Books, New York (USA), 2 Bridges, New York (USA), Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University (USA), Shakespear and Sons (Czech Republic), Housmans Bookshop (UK), ICA Bookstore (UK), Whitechapel Books (UK), Donlon (UK), Pages of Hackney London (UK), and Hopscotch Reading Room (DE), Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt (DE), bbooks (DE), Walter König (DE), Pro qm (DE), Do You Read Me?! (DE), Zabriski (DE), She Said (DE), Arnolfini (UK), Bookhaus (UK), South London Gallery (UK), Serpentine (UK). Now distributed by Public Knowledge Books

Alongside a number of public engagements through the research and publication platforms mentioned above, Head has been invited for commissioned work and as a guest artist with: Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin; Center for Theoretical Studies, Prague; Haus der Statistik, Berlin; Theater X, Berlin; Motto Berlin; Center for Art and Urbanistics (ZK/U), Berlin; Berlin Biennale #10; KAPiTAL, Berlin; KUNCI Study Forum & Collective in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Rujak Center for Urban Studies in Jakarta, Indonesia; Jakarta History Museum; Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden; Neue Berliner Räume, Berlin; European Capital of Culture Plovdiv, Bulgaria; DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service); ifa Gallery (Institute for Foreign Relationships), Berlin; Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt (House of the World’s Cultures), Berlin; Threads Radio, London; NTS Radio, London; Deutschlandradio; Worldwide FM, London; Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Poland; The Substation, Melbourne; Babylon Cinema, Berlin; Arte de Obra, Lanzarote; Transition Finsbury Park, London; W139 Gallery, Amsterdam.