14.01.2020
HEAD photographies
L’enseignement de la photographie tient une place importante au sein des formations proposées par la HEAD – Genève. Sans être une école de photographie, des formations spécifiques existent dans les filières Arts…
Category : Fine arts
16.12.2019
Head to Head III – microsillons
The HEAD–Genève’s TRANS– Masters is devoted to students wanting to get involved in socially engaged and collaborative artistic projects or cultural mediation. The Masters was founded by microsillons, a duo composed of…
06.12.2019
Uncertain patterns
Comment enseigner une pratique qui s’est construite comme effraction des normes artistiques instituées et institutionnelles ? Voici le paradoxe auquel se confrontent les auteur·e·s de cet ouvrage collectif, et en premier lieu…
11.11.2019
Défiler le défilé
In this introductory text, Christophe Kihm addresses the formal logic of the fashion show. The French term for fashion show, “défilé”, refers to a narrow pass in a mountain which people walked…
06.11.2019
Models on the jetty
Form and function of the fashion show today
Aude Fellay has interviewed designers for this special feature dedicated to the issues facing contemporary fashion shows. Although they all condemn the industry’s overproduction and the image effects, at the expense of…
01.10.2019
Enseigner par le milieu
A text by Yann Chateigné
Upon entering his final year as Head of Visual Arts in September of 2017, Yann Chateigné addressed some of the key principles he had learnt during his eight years in the department.…
08.07.2019
An Initial Conversation
Denise Bertschi with Giulia Bini
Exploring places in the world where Switzerland has played an active historical role, whether as a nation or through its nationals, the artist Denise Bertschi works on the notion of « Swiss…
05.07.2019
Oh, un diplôme
Un texte de Fabienne Radi où il est question de phonologie, de jury, de Grand Tour, de cernes et d’électroménager
The 2018-2019 school year in Visual arts ended with the traditional Grand Tour exhibition, which presented the diploma work of students in the Boulevard Helvétique, James Fazy and Général Dufour buildings, in…
24.06.2019
Diasporas of the So-Called Anthropocene
Notes in the Margins of "The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva" - An essay by Gene Ray
Gene Ray calls for a post-modernism that would fully overcome capitalist modernity and its catastrophes. From a reading of Walter Benjamin’s Thesis on the Philosophy of History and Trauerspiel, Ray invokes allegory…
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
24.06.2019
Common denominator
Art in the ruins of modernity
In William Turner’s "Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On" (1840), sublime, unrelenting nature meets the revolting behaviour of men treating other men as refundable commodities. Images of black…