As both the dominant mode of self-realisation and a tool for creating wealth in the capitalist world, work is constantly being redefined. Our relationship to it has been affected by automation, the…
In recent years, numerous initiatives have called for better remuneration for artists. The success of these campaigns is a testament to a salutary change in the status of the artist. For too…
Two films by Lou Cohen explore the contemporary professional world with a wry sense of humour. From recruitment agencies to start-ups, Cohen imagines situations in which coaching and power relations combine and…
During her studies, Eva Meister took on a number of student jobs as her family could not afford to support her. In her TRANS – master’s thesis, Meister, now an alumna, looked…
In The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt famously distinguished labour – linked to bodily activity and the reproduction of it – from work that transcends individual life. Through its physical and material aspects,…
For his painting, French artist Nicolas Chardon uses excessively limited means: simple geometric forms, preferably a square; sometimes a tautological expression such as “abstract painting”; white and black as dominant colours. Yet…
Autonomous activities with their own peculiar rules and devoid of any identifiable utility, play and art have regularly met and entwined throughout history, particularly in the subversive project of the Situationist International.…
In this Talking Heads conversation with art critic Jill Gasparina and digital anthropologist Nicolas Nova, Lialina bears witness to the paradigm shift that took place in the 2000s with the passage from…
Formerly scattered over several buildings in Geneva, the HEAD – Genève has now regrouped the majority of its activities on a new campus in the Châtelaine district. In 2021, the Visual Arts…
How to continue producing, as an artist who belongs to a social group perceived as a minority? Behind the current openness of art institutions to so-called minorities, there are a number of…