23.06.2022
République Tukki
In contemporary art, migrants are mostly represented from a dramatic angle. The denunciation of their fate once they have arrived in Europe, the risks of crossing the Sahara or the Atlantic, and…
Category : Fine arts
23.06.2022
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Means of re/membering
Taking the form of a poetic and theoretical experiment, Loreleï Regamey′s thesis seeks to bring together the various voices that have accompanied her in the course of her long-term research on the…
23.06.2022
Fuir Genève
Train trips punctuate this thesis by Oélia Gouret, which takes the form of a travel diary, but also of a pandemic’s log book, an extraordinary period also marked by intense exchanges, readings…
23.06.2022
Les vieux, les vieilles, l’art et l’institution
Camille Sevez questions our relationship with old age in this thesis, based on a painful personal episode in which her grandfather died alone in a nursing home during lockdown. While old age…
23.06.2022
ISSUE #13 – Theses of today and tomorrow
As the academic year draws to a close, ISSUE invites you to discover a selection of exemplary theses written by graduates from the various master's programs at HEAD – Genève in 2021…
08.06.2022
(Un)learning from Jakarta
Conversation between farid rakun from ruangrupa and the students from the Work.Master
On the 18th of June, 2022, documenta fifteen will open its doors in Kassel. The Indonesian collective ruangrupa run this new edition of the German five-year event, seeking to embed it in…
16.05.2022
The artwork’s ecosystem and the materiality of the world
The notion of ‘ecosystem’ finds a strong echo in contemporary artistic practices. Influenced by the neo-materialist approach, which challenges the primacy of the subject and considers matter to be endowed with vitality,…
11.05.2022
Radical acts of love
In addition to being one of the world’s most polluting industries, fashion subjects its workers to some of the most degrading working conditions. In the face of these abuses, consumer mobilisation remains…
11.05.2022
The Freistilmuseum twenty years later
In recent years, historians have taken an avid interest in the radical withdrawal from the art world and/or political activism of certain figures, with diverse motivations and backgrounds, such as Carla Lonzi,…
11.05.2022
Between concept and competence
The handmade in the work of Zoë Sheehan Saldaña
In 1981, Ian Burn posited that conceptual art was responsible for a loss of manual skills among artists. By putting the emphasis on conception, artists have deprived themselves of the specific knowledge…