Through videos, immersive installations and drawings, Morag Keil looks with disillusioned humour at the impact of what Shoshana Zuboff famously called surveillance capitalism. The multiple lockdowns and calls to telecommute during the…
The history of artists is marked by two contradictory impulses: first, to free oneself from the judgement of institutionally approved personalities, and second, to overcome one’s own solitude. This double fantasy acts…
The Badaboum collective was created in 2018 in Geneva during a workshop delivered as part of the [inter]action major in Visual Arts. Until 2020, Badaboum carried out a whole series of experiments,…
In this introduction, Gene Ray reviews a series of recent events, mostly related to the Black Lives Matter movement, which may suggest that a new iconoclasm has begun. Ray associates this aggressive…
In 1996, shortly before the handover of Hong Kong to China, an artist sprayed the statue of Queen Victoria with red paint and disfigured it with a hammer. The meaning of this…
In this text, Roman Karrer examines the way in which the names of streets, squares or mountains lend such places a symbolic dimension. The name of the botanist and zoologist Louis Agassiz,…
Since its construction in 1909, the Reformers’ Wall in Geneva’s Parc des Bastions has been vandalised numerous times. Based on this history of tagging and painting, Basile Collet considers the way in…
But what must fall? This podcast interviews members of French-speaking Swiss resistance collectives who stand against forms of oppression such as racism, patriarchy and police authority. This question broadens the notion of…
In a country like Spain, where the memory of Christopher Columbus is regularly brandished as a national cement and source of pride – and with the institution of monarchy in decline –…
Like a dialogue between languages, this bilingual Spanish-English text also takes the form of a song and then a harangue. The text revisits Chilean history through the demonstrations against social inequality that…