Biography
Doreen Mende is an independent curator, researcher, writer and theorist, currently Associate Professor of the Curatorial/Politics seminar and Head of the CCC Research Program, Master and PhD-Forum, of the Visual Arts Department at HEAD – Genève (HES-SO). She is Principle Investigator of the transdisciplinary study Decolonizing Socialism. Entangled Internationalism (2019-2025), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNFS), in collaboration with Urban Studies of University Basel, KV–Kunstverein Leipzig, House of World Cultures and Van Abbe Museum. Doreen Mende is also a founding member of the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin.
Contents
11.07.2023
Conversation autour de “End Credits”
For years, the FBI monitored the activities of Eslanda and Paul Robeson, both civil rights activists and communist sympathisers in the United States. The artist Steve McQueen makes this surveillance visible in…
07.02.2022
Femmage to Marion von Osten
The late artist-curator is remembered by Lucie Kolb, Pauline Boudry and Doreen Mende
This article pays tribute to the artist, exhibition organiser and researcher Marion von Osten, who passed away in November 2020. A pioneer both in the field of research-based practice and in her…
24.10.2021
Principles for an open-ended artistic research
Statements by Anthony Masure and Doreen Mende
As a member of one of the signatory umbrella organizations of the Vienna Declaration on Artistic Research – the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) – the HEAD – Genève is indirectly linked…
30.09.2021
Politics and aesthetics of film montage
From cinema to installation
Against a deluge of images, certain forms of montage, compilation and spatialization allow for a critical engagement with images. Doreen Mende looks back at the approaches of Soviet women editors and the…
27.11.2020
Head to Head VI – Doreen Mende
Video profile of the CCC research-based programme head professor
Head to head is a series of filmed portraits of teachers, researchers, artists and designers active at the HEAD – Genève. The portraits allow them to speak about their often brilliant careers…
26.11.2020
Talking Heads – Challenging Cybernetic Conspiracy
A lecture by Bahar Noorizadeh
This Talking Heads delocalised online gave the floor to artist and researcher Bahar Noorizadeh, who considers the alternatives that stem from art and art-research to block the machine-mania running our future. To…