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…
Category : Fine arts
21.12.2021
Art and Humanitarian: Engaging
These conferences tackle the issue of engagement. Beyond representation, how can art enter into dialogue with communities in the grip of humanitarian crises? Through projects in Kenya, Afghanistan and Beirut, the speakers…
21.12.2021
Art and Humanitarian: Looking
These lectures question the related, though sometimes competing, notions of ethics and aesthetics. Certain symbols make it possible to connect these notions. Similarly, a dialogue between distant perspective and field action allows…
21.12.2021
Art and Humanitarian: Impacting
This series of presentations looks at some concrete cases in which art and humanitarian aid work together in crisis areas. The speakers bear witness to the positive impact of art, both in…
25.10.2021
ISSUE #10 – The controversial institutionalisation of artistic research
Comments on the Vienna Declaration
This focus critically examines an initiative for a European framework for artistic research that could serve as a roadmap for government policies. It proposes other ways of regarding art research, less standardized…
25.10.2021
What’s Wrong with the Vienna Declaration?
Artists are largely absent from both the process and the content of the Vienna Declaration on Artistic Research. In their critique of this international policy document, Florian Cramer and Nienke Terpsma recall…
24.10.2021
Principles for an open-ended artistic research
Statements by Anthony Masure and Doreen Mende
As a member of one of the signatory umbrella organizations of the Vienna Declaration on Artistic Research – the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) – the HEAD – Genève is indirectly linked…
30.09.2021
ISSUE #9 – Editing Arts International Symposium
Video footage of the conferences
"Editing Arts! Montage en mouvement" looked at the question of montage in contemporary art and design practices and, conversely, the influence of these practices on cinema. This feature gathers the entire conference…
27.09.2021
Inside the box
An interview with Morag Keil about remote art teaching and making
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…
16.09.2021
Agence de tutorat artistique
An interview with collective Medium Sans Serif and a performed reading by Inès Berdugo
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…