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

23.06.2020

ISSUE #5 – Masterful thesis

A selection of Master Thesis

This edition features a selection of thesis completed in 2019 and 2020 in the HEAD – Genève's different Master’s orientations. The selection is a testimony to the diversity of issues at stake,…

Fine arts

18.06.2020

Where are our common dreams now?

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

In association with the far° Nyon, a group of students from the HEAD – Genève worked with the artist Maria Lucia Cruz Correia. At an interdisciplinary workshop during the Semaines de tous…

Fine arts, MA TRANS - Art, education, engagement

17.06.2020

Pourquoi

Master Thesis by Greg Clément

Pourquoi (Why) is an essay that considers the position of the author within a collective form of cinema. Pourquoi articulates film analysis, accounts of experimentations and descriptions of devices. Pourquoi guides and questions an action-research, on which…

Fine arts, CCC Research-based Master Programme

16.06.2020

To Destroy a World

Master Thesis by Laila A. Torres Mendieta

In the Master’s thesis she completed in 2019 within the framework of the CCC, Laila A. Torres Mendieta uses the performativity of fiction theory to create what she calls “fissures” in the…

Fine arts, CCC Research-based Master Programme

15.06.2020

rano rano, naming, listening to, refusing the coloniality of the exhibitionary complex

Master Thesis by Léa Thaïs Genoud

The research conducted by Léa Genoud within the framework of the CCC Master’s research programme in 2019 is a reflection on the coloniality of the museum – a product of Western imperialist…

Fine arts, Work.Master – Contemporary Artistic Practices

14.06.2020

Clara, Chuck et les autres

Master Thesis by Laura Spozio

Laura Spozio proposes a reworked version of her 2019 Visual Art Master’s Thesis for this online publication. Readers can choose between two non-linear entries. The first story is of a literary nature,…

Fine arts, Work.Master – Contemporary Artistic Practices

14.06.2020

Love is what you want

Master Thesis by Diane Rivoire

Through a montage of texts and interviews with artists and authors, Diane Rivoire traces the links between art, love and friendship, the love of art and workplace friendships. Some passages are borrowed…

Fine arts, Work.Master – Contemporary Artistic Practices

13.06.2020

N’importe quoi mais pas ça

Master Thesis by Johana Blanc

Johana Blanc’s 2020 Work.Master Master’s thesis collects together a series of peremptory judgements sprinkled by some artists, critics and other authority figures of the art world when talking about art. Banishing some…

Fine arts, BA in Fine arts, Construction major

15.05.2020

Robinsoneries

Lock Book – studying art at the time of the coronavirus

How can you continue to practise art when you no longer have access to your studio? How do you keep up your studying rhythm when every day feels the same? How can…

Fine arts, Visual communication, MA in Media Design

26.03.2020

Borders of empathy

A conversation between curator Charlotte Laubard and anthropologist Emmanuel Grimaud

In this interview with Charlotte Laubard, the French anthropologist and India and Hinduism specialist Emmanuel Grimaud revisits some of the fascinating experiments and cinematographic research in which he tackled the inter-subjective borders…