11.05.2022
Radical acts of love
In addition to being one of the world’s most polluting industries, fashion subjects its workers to some of the most degrading working conditions. In the face of these abuses, consumer mobilisation remains…
Category : essay
11.05.2022
Architecture without new architecture
Architecture has long been synonymous with construction. The realisation of the destructive dimension of such an enterprise on a global scale is now pushing architects to consider other ways of pursuing their…
11.05.2022
The Freistilmuseum twenty years later
In recent years, historians have taken an avid interest in the radical withdrawal from the art world and/or political activism of certain figures, with diverse motivations and backgrounds, such as Carla Lonzi,…
11.05.2022
Between concept and competence
The handmade in the work of Zoë Sheehan Saldaña
In 1981, Ian Burn posited that conceptual art was responsible for a loss of manual skills among artists. By putting the emphasis on conception, artists have deprived themselves of the specific knowledge…
04.04.2022
No Monument
A CCC alumna, artist and activist, Marisa Cornejo made a film on the events that took place on Santiago’s Plaza Italia, which became the Plaza de la Dignidad on the 18th of…
07.02.2022
Femmage to Marion von Osten
The late artist-curator is remembered by Lucie Kolb, Pauline Boudry and Doreen Mende
This article pays tribute to the artist, exhibition organiser and researcher Marion von Osten, who passed away in November 2020. A pioneer both in the field of research-based practice and in her…
11.01.2022
Strong interaction
Scientific observation put to the test by photographic observation
In recent years, the Photography Pool of HEAD – Genève has organised two transversal workshops in collaboration with CERN, the EPFL’s Biophore and the Geneva Astronomical Observatory. In 2017-2018, the “Figures” workshop…
16.12.2021
Autopsy of an editorial experiment
HEAD – Publishing's multi-platform books collection Manifestes
The HEAD – Genève’s policy is to defend access to the knowledge it produces. To this end, the HEAD launched a new multi-media editorial unit called HEAD – Publishing, whose first collection,…
24.10.2021
A Charter for Advanced Practices
A collective proposal to rethink the value of artistic research
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…
24.10.2021
Principles for an open-ended artistic research
Statements by Anthony Masure and Doreen Mende
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…