About

Alex Head: pansexual bilingual dual national white male. Ricochet, Cultural Epigenetics and the Philosophy of Change, Ljå Forlag (Oslo, 2021), Here Comes Trouble, an Inquiry into Art, Madness and Magic as Deviant Knowledge, ZK/U Press (Berlin, 2016).

Alex’s work explores the impact of culture on our interior worlds. Broadly speaking he assesses the ways in which the artistic method lends clarity to the embodied mind and the ‘embrained body’. Specifically, his work with Cultural Epigenetics has contributed to our cultural and anthropological understanding of how trauma impacts us on the cellular level. He has been known to work independently or with networks of artists, researchers and citizens. He translates bodies of research into public events, drawing and print.

Head 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). He attained a Masters degree in Raumstrategien (Spatial Strategies), focusing on Fine Art and Political Theory, at Weißensee School of Art, Berlin.

His recent 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.

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