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…
Category : Fine arts
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…
Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts, Research Institute for Art and Design, Space design, Visual communication
09.05.2022
ISSUE#12 – De/production without cons/des/truction
How can art and design practice be combined with ecological issues? Does production necessarily imply a form of destruction? What forms might a turn towards deproduction take? This feature considers these issues…
06.04.2022
Head to Head – Nayansaku Mufwankolo
In this video portrait dedicated to them, the delegate of Diversity & Inclusion at HEAD – Genève, Nayansaku Mufwankolo, highlights the different stages that have allowed them to develop their practice. From…
04.04.2022
No Monument
A CCC alumna, artist and activist, Marisa Cornejo made a film on the events that took place on Santiago’s Plaza Italia, which became the Plaza de la Dignidad on the 18th of…
07.02.2022
Femmage to Marion von Osten
The late artist-curator is remembered by Lucie Kolb, Pauline Boudry and Doreen Mende
This article pays tribute to the artist, exhibition organiser and researcher Marion von Osten, who passed away in November 2020. A pioneer both in the field of research-based practice and in her…
11.01.2022
Strong interaction
Scientific observation put to the test by photographic observation
In recent years, the Photography Pool of HEAD – Genève has organised two transversal workshops in collaboration with CERN, the EPFL’s Biophore and the Geneva Astronomical Observatory. In 2017-2018, the “Figures” workshop…
10.01.2022
ISSUE #11 – Art and humanity: what is possible?
Video footage of the conferences
The two-day symposium ‘Art and humanity: what is possible?’ held in April 2021 by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, the HEAD – Genève and the International Committee of the…
21.12.2021
Art and Humanitarian: Learning
Artists who are attentive to humanitarian situations raise the question of the gaze in the face of vulnerability and appraise the risks of voyeurism. More generally, the speakers in this section reflect…