16.04.2021
ISSUE #7 – The self-taught enigma
Produced during a study day organised by Charlotte Laubard, head of the Visual Arts Department at HEAD – Genève, the entries in this feature look back at the place of self-taught artists…
Category : Fine arts
Cinema, BA in Cinema, Fine arts, BA in Fine arts, Space design, BA in Interior design, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, BA in Product Design/Jewellery and Accessory, Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication
05.03.2021
ISSUE #6 – Talking Words
The HEAD offers various workshops devoted to writing in art and design, and this feature looks at writing practices at the school through student productions and interviews with two specialists: Carla Demierre…
03.03.2021
The joy of writing and rewriting
An interview with Carla Demierre and Fabienne Radi
While remote teaching has momentarily transformed their common creative writing course into a podcast, Fabienne Radi and Carla Demierre nonetheless advocate for experiential learning: the experience of reading, writing and rewriting beyond…
02.03.2021
Littérature, terrain d’action
Republication of an interview with Hervé Laurent
In September 2009, the literature periodical Remue.net – founded by the technophile writer François Bon – sat down with Hervé Laurent, the HEAD’s “Monsieur Texte,” to discuss the writing workshop Laurent pioneered…
01.03.2021
Writing and its many voices
A selection of students’ writings
This selection of works by students and alumni from the HEAD’s creative writing workshops testifies to the vitality and diversity of ways in which a text can be rendered. The variety of…
28.02.2021
Une lunch box dans la fable
Review of Fabienne Radi's Le déclin du professeur de tennis by Sylvain Menétrey
Fabienne Radi published two books in 2020: Émail diamant at Art&fiction and Le déclin du professeur de tennis at Sombres torrents. Sylvain Menétrey focuses on the latter, a collection of four short…
27.02.2021
D’autres voix
Review of two Carla Demierre recent publications by Julie Sas
With Autoradio, published in 2019 by Héros-Limite, and Qui est là, published a year later by art&fiction, Carla Demierre uses concrete poetry and polyphonic narratives to express the variety of her own…
04.02.2021
Head voices VI – Dora Garcia
This new episode in the Head voices section, which revisits notable conferences held at the HEAD – Genève in a relatively distant past, gives the floor back to the artist Dora Garcia.…
27.11.2020
Head to Head VI – Doreen Mende
Head to head is a series of filmed portraits of teachers, researchers, artists and designers active at the HEAD – Genève. The portraits allow them to speak about their often brilliant careers…
26.11.2020
Talking Heads – Challenging Cybernetic Conspiracy
A lecture by Bahar Noorizadeh
This Talking Heads delocalised online gave the floor to artist and researcher Bahar Noorizadeh, who considers the alternatives that stem from art and art-research to block the machine-mania running our future. To…