In the contemporary art world, a professional sector based on the globalised market economy where I worked for over twenty years as a production manager, a curator, and later as a –…
If you are reading this text on a computer screen, it is possible that your eyes are drying out. Prolonged exposure to bright electronic screens makes us blink less and thus reduces…
For me, agency is about how we can act upon our desire to have a better life. “Right to the city” proponent David Harvey emphasizes that when he uses the term “heart’s…
This issue brings together a series of articles focusing on the notion of ecopedagogy. The notion of ecopedagogy is based on the conviction that, while education alone cannot change the world, it…
There’s nothing rhetorical about the question in the title of this article. Indeed, only a small minority of the HEAD – Genève’s Visual Arts graduates pursue a career as an artist, with…
While making us humans the most knowledgeable creatures on Earth, our contemporary modes of communication cut us off from a direct, embodied relationship with our environment. Questioning this anomaly in her Visual…
For years, the FBI monitored the activities of Eslanda and Paul Robeson, both civil rights activists and communist sympathisers in the United States. The artist Steve McQueen makes this surveillance visible in…
Pauline Julier’s latest film, Follow the Water (2022), focuses on the Atacama Desert in Chile. This desert, the driest on our planet, is home to huge lithium mines, a metal needed for…
Curators Yasmin Afschar and Elise Lammer are behind the No Emission No Exploitation manifesto, which seeks to put down – in the production of art and exhibitions – an approach decoupled from…
Having noted the limitations of scientific discourse which, in the absence of a narrative to support it, fails to unite people around the shared challenge of saving living things, the designer and…