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…
The European Forum for Advanced Practices (EFAP), an informal forum of artists, theorists, philosophers, educators, performers, curators, musicians, urbanists, anthropologists and other cultural actors across Europe and beyond, has assembled to propose…
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…
The following essay comes from the transcription and re-elaboration of a collective reading session Camilla Paolino proposed at Fri Art Kunsthalle in February 2020, within the framework of the exhibition Dal momento…
Historically, the clothing industry has often been in the vanguard of great economic rationalisation movements. It was one of the first industries to be industrialised in the 19th century, and in the…
In this interview, Caroline Bernard returns to some practical experiments she conducted with colleagues for the research project “Design viral: méthodologies pour un buzz citoyen.” From an attempt at a “self heroisation,”…
The book Almanach Ecart. A collective archive, edited by Elisabeth Jobin and Yann Chateigné, concludes two years of research conducted in the archives of the Geneva collective Ecart (active between 1969 and…
During a research project, the stage director Isis Fahmy and designers Laura Couto Rosado and Benoît Renaudin joined forces to assess the concept of performative objects. This notion, which they invented, covers…