19.04.2019
Talking Heads – Claude Barras
It took Claude Barras ten years to complete his first full-length animation film My Life as a Courgette (2016), which tells the story of a young, round-faced, big-eyed orphan boy. The film…
Category : Cinema
09.04.2019
Head voices II – Conference Harun Farocki
Every month, Ambroise Tièche excavates a notable lecture that was given at the HEAD – Geneva in a more or less distant past. Most of the video recordings he uses have never…
Cinema, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts, Research Institute for Art and Design, Space design, Visual communication
08.01.2019
Jean-Pierre Greff – Foreword
Jean-Pierre Greff, the HEAD – Geneva’s director, returns to the founding of the school’s interdisciplinary project, and of the AC/DC (contemporary art/contemporary design) symposium, a cornerstone event for the school in 2007.…
Cinema, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts, Research Institute for Art and Design, Space design, Visual communication
19.12.2018
Mark Wigley
The architect and design theorist Mark Wigley has engaged in a re-evaluation of the notion of design, so as to uncover some of the features that led mankind to design its own…
Cinema, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts, Research Institute for Art and Design, Space design, Visual communication
18.12.2018
A people is missing – Extension du régime potentiel
Our age has been described as the age of winter – an ice age for possibilities. Faced with this ‘crisis of the future’ that the early 21st century is undergoing, Les Impatients…
Cinema, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts, Research Institute for Art and Design, Space design, Visual communication
17.12.2018
Liam Young – Hello city!
Digital technologies are radically reshaping our perception and occupation of cities. Join speculative architect Liam Young and an all-seeing smart city operating system as they take a tour in a driverless taxi…
Cinema, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts, Research Institute for Art and Design, Space design, Visual communication
16.12.2018
Mathieu Triclot – Has the cyber-world become a reality?
A look back on a policy for information machines
Cybernetics has addressed all these issues, which have made a major comeback in the public discourse about technology, while also constructing a framework (in particular around Norbert Wiener’s public commitments) for political…
Cinema, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts, Research Institute for Art and Design, Space design, Visual communication
15.12.2018
Marguerite Humeau – Riddles
The complex of works RIDDLES consists in five projects and exhibitions that took place in 2017 on the High Line in New York, at C L E A R I N G…
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14.12.2018
Mathieu Lehanneur
Mathieu Lehanneur draws his audience into a travelogue about his projects and the wishes of his sponsors, from a priest to a champagne brand. It appears that, beyond a considerable use of…
Cinema, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts, Research Institute for Art and Design, Space design, Visual communication
13.12.2018
Baptiste Morizot and Nastassja Martin – Retour du temps du mythe
Sur un destin commun des animistes et des naturalistes face au changement climatique à l’Anthropocène
Can we conceive any other relationship with the living than the one the Western world has inherited? Our relationships, between exploitation and protection, are based on a fundamental asymmetry between us and…