At the core of this issue is Charlotte Laubard’s exhibition, Études sur l’empathie. Laubard organised Études sur l’empathie at the Fondation Ricard in Paris in 2019, gathering together fourteen HEAD artist students…
Since 2018, artist and Work.Master graduate Eva Zornio has been developing a series of participative projects under the label Affective Evaluation, where she asks the audience to consider the question of empathy.…
Every month, Ambroise Tièche unearths a notable lecture given at the HEAD – Genève during its history, from past to present. Most of the video recordings he uses have never been made…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Gene Ray (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) 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…