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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
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…
The Badaboum collective was created in 2018 in Geneva during a workshop delivered as part of the [inter]action major in Visual Arts. Until 2020, Badaboum carried out a whole series of experiments,…