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.…
Category : Fine arts
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 (HES-SO)
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…
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
ISSUE #2 – 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…
23.06.2019
Water policy and poetics
A conversation with Aurélien Gamboni, Jean-Pierre Greff and Daniel de Roulet
Source of life or the « armed wing » of migration policies; object of contemplation for painters and object of fears for islanders; static or furious element, deceptive metaphor for commercial exchanges…
22.06.2019
Double Bound Possession Master Symposium – Introduction
Avery Gordon in conversation with Anselm Franke
In English, the word “possession” has two divergent meanings, perhaps not quite accidentally. It’s earliest sense is taking possession or occupation, which becomes legal property. The second meaning is of a thing…
21.06.2019
Double Bound Possession Master Symposium – Kodwo Eshun
We Are the Gods Who Are Trapped in Cocoons
What if the abolition of slavery had given way to more sophisticated forms of servitude? Is it possible to detach the notion of liberty from the history of property that secured it?…
21.06.2019
Double Bound Possession Master Symposium – Kader Attia
The artist Kader Attia shows the familial circumstances that led him to produce the Reason’s Oxymorons (2015) video installation, in which he explores the relationships between pyschopathology and belief. Through the story…
20.05.2019
Head voices III – Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
"Art et mystifications" conference
Every month, Ambroise Tièche excavates a notable lecture that was given at the HEAD – Geneva in a more or less distant past. Most of the video recordings he uses have never…