ISSUE – Journal of art & design HEAD – Genève

Memories of a Grand Tour – Episode I

An interview with Giulia Essyad

On September 8th 2020, the Visual Art Department organised its traditional graduation exhibition, the Grand Tour. There’s nothing ordinary about this year’s exhibition though, which was planned for early summer, but was rescheduled to the start of the following academic year for public health reasons. Most importantly, students had to work within a context disturbed by the pandemic, be it in their working conditions outside the school or in their imaginations, hijacked by the echoes of a world in pain. ISSUE’s editorial team offers a panorama of those young art practises in full turmoil, presenting a series of interviews with graduate students and images of their works shown at the Grand Tour.
In this first chapter, Giulia Essyad, a Work.Master graduate student, explains how she took over prevailing devices and aesthetic languages to create surprising, funny and powerful images. Not only seeking to fight on equal terms against the tyranny of beauty, skin colour and thinness which invades our subconscious, her pieces also invent a personal spirituality.

Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Research Institute for Art and Design, Research projects

1 September 2020

La maille anticapitaliste

Interview de Valentine Ebner, responsable du projet KnitGeekResearch

25 August 2020

El Croquis: an architecture magazine success story

In conversation with co-founder Richard Levene

Fine arts, CCC Research-based Master Programme, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, MA in Fashion and Accessory Design, Visual communication, MA in Media Design, Space design, MA in Space and communication, Fine arts, MA TRANS - Art, education, engagement, Fine arts, Work.Master – Contemporary Artistic Practices

23 June 2020

ISSUE #5 – Masterful thesis

A selection of Master Thesis

18 June 2020

Where are our common dreams now?

An e-mail exchange between Katrin Kettenacker and Maria Lucia Cruz Correia

Research Institute for Art and Design, Research projects

8 June 2020

Design viral : méthodologies pour un buzz citoyen

Interview de l'artiste-chercheuse Caroline Bernard par Sylvain Menétrey

Visual communication, MA in Media Design

15 June 2020

Head to head V – Alexia Mathieu

Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory

9 June 2020

Fashion Responsive

Fine arts, BA in Fine arts, Construction major

15 May 2020

Robinsoneries

Lock Book – studying art at the time of the coronavirus

Visual communication, MA in Media Design

7 May 2020

Towards an alternative design of artificial intelligence?

Douglas Edric Stanley and Jürg Lehni in interview with Anthony Masure*

22 April 2020

Filming the intimate and the political

An interview with Petra Costa by Delphine Jeanneret

Fine arts, Visual communication, MA in Media Design, Visual communication, Fine arts, Work.Master – Contemporary Artistic Practices

11 March 2020

ISSUE #4 – Studies in empathy

How images affect us

Cinema, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts, Space design, Visual communication

3 March 2020

In my Head / Out of my Head

Cinema, Fine arts

12 March 2020

Head to head IV – Marie Losier

Interview by Lucien Monot and text by Julie Enckell Julliard

12 March 2020

Radi∞{((0O0))}∞Head

Workshop de création radiophonique

Research Institute for Art and Design, Research projects

12 March 2020

Dream Piece

An essay by Yann Chateigné, from the book "Almanach Ecart. A collective archive"

Research Institute for Art and Design, Research projects

22 January 2020

How to create performative objects

A research between design and theatre

10 February 2020

Head Voice V – Nathalie Boulouch

La photographie couleur n'est pas vulgaire

Visual communication

5 January 2020

Talking Heads – Jonas Voegeli

Fine arts, MA TRANS - Art, education, engagement

16 December 2019

Head to Head III – microsillons

Space design, MA in Space and communication

19 December 2019

Design by Accident

Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, BA in Fashion Design

10 December 2019

Third culture clothes

Fine arts, MA TRANS - Art, education, engagement

6 December 2019

Uncertain patterns

Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication, Image/Story major

26 November 2019

Some fragments of conversation

An interview with Jeff Délez

Space design, BA in Interior design, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts

6 November 2019

ISSUE #3 – Models on the jetty

Form and function of the fashion show today

Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory

22 October 2019

Alex Mullins: designer d’images

Une interview de Bertrand Maréchal

Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication, Image/Story major

1 October 2019

Head Voice IV – Tomi Ungerer

In discussion with Thérèse Willer

1 October 2019

Enseigner par le milieu

A text by Yann Chateigné

Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication, Image/Story major

12 September 2019

This is not a test

About SUV by Helge Reumann

3 September 2019

Montage. Une anthologie (1913–2018)

Fine arts, CCC Research-based Master Programme, Fine arts, Fine arts, MA TRANS - Art, education, engagement, Research Institute for Art and Design, Fine arts, Work.Master – Contemporary Artistic Practices

24 June 2019

ISSUE #2 – Common denominator

Art in the ruins of modernity

Research Institute for Art and Design, Visual communication

22 October 2019

Ethnography through design

28 May 2019

Exhibiting in an educational field

Space design, MA in Space and communication

4 July 2019

Head to head II – Alexandra Midal

5 July 2019

Oh, un diplôme

Un texte de Fabienne Radi où il est question de phonologie, de jury, de Grand Tour, de cernes et d’électroménager

Cinema, Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication, Image/Story major

19 April 2019

Talking Heads – Claude Barras

Cinema, Fine arts

9 April 2019

Head voices II – Conference Harun Farocki

17 April 2019

The Alien and the Alibi

A text by Christophe Kihm

20 May 2019

Head voices III – Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux

"Art et mystifications" conference