15.05.2019
Head to head I – Charlotte Laubard
On the run up to the Venice Biennale 2019, Sylvain Menétrey sat down with Charlotte Laubard, the curator of the Biennale’s Swiss Pavillon and the head of the HEAD’s Visual Arts’ department.…
Category : Fine arts
17.04.2019
The Alien and the Alibi
A text by Christophe Kihm
Christophe Kihm outlines the history of extra-terrestrial life representations through a series of scientific, philosophical and artistic speculations. The field Kihm calls “alienology” — which is intended to study our relationships with…
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…
25.02.2019
Terms and conditions for practice-based doctoral research
PhD Forum Research Day
Irit Rogoff, Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths University in London, and Samuel Bianchini, artist and professor-researcher at EnsAD in Paris, were guest speakers of a research day on May 25th, 2018,…
08.02.2019
Head voices I – Conference Marie-José Mondzain
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…
18.01.2019
Ecart, 1969–1982
A Collective Archive
On the occasion of the re-edition of the book Ecart, 1969–1982. L’irrésolution commune d’un engagement équivoque, published by MAMCO (in French) and by Walter Koenig (in English), Elisabeth Jobin — who participates…
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…