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…
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…
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?…
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…
This book is not only an opportunity to tell the story of the projects that marked the first decade of LiveInYourHead, which came to be considered, shortly after its inception in 2009,…
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…
On the run up to the Venice Biennale 2019, Sylvain Menétrey sat down with Charlotte Laubard, the curator of the Biennale’s Swiss Pavillon and the head of the HEAD’s Visual Arts’ department.…
Christophe Kihm outlines the history of extra-terrestrial life representations through a series of scientific, philosophical and artistic speculations. The field Kihm calls “alienology” — which is intended to study our relationships with…
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…
Irit Rogoff, Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths University in London, and Samuel Bianchini, artist and professor-researcher at EnsAD in Paris, were guest speakers of a research day on May 25th, 2018,…