With modernity, the understanding of art practice has largely been reduced to the expression of individual subjectivity through the production of objects or events designed for institutions or the market. The two…
Looking to escape the model of temporarily occupying a wasteland proposed by institutions and private companies, art collectives are rethinking how to live and work together by acquiring land that will ensure…
A teacher in the CCC Master’s Research Programme and a researcher at HEAD – Genève, Gene Ray is interested in radical practices of art and activism in a time of multiple social…
The collector′s book, Oracles – Artists’ Calling Cards, reinvents itself in digital format and reaches out to a wider audience. In this interview, Pierre Leguillon, the instigator of this multi-faceted project under…
A teacher and researcher at HEAD – Genève, Nicolas Nova recently published the book Exercices d’observation, which invites us to train our attention skills. Composed of short texts, it is illustrated by…
Giulia Mensitieri conducted a field survey on the working conditions in fashion, demonstrating how the image of luxury masks and justifies the precarious reality of workers. In this in-depth interview, Aude Fellay…
In The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt famously distinguished labour – linked to bodily activity and the reproduction of it – from work that transcends individual life. Through its physical and material aspects,…
A graphic designer and teacher who has long been interested in interactivity issues, Etienne Mineur is experimenting with artificial intelligence image generation platforms, such as DALL-E or Midjourney, to create typography. Testing…
For his painting, French artist Nicolas Chardon uses excessively limited means: simple geometric forms, preferably a square; sometimes a tautological expression such as “abstract painting”; white and black as dominant colours. Yet…
Favarger is a Geneva-based chocolate brand founded in 1826, well known for its avelines, a chocolate praline wrapped in gold paper. In 2021, the company commissioned the Visual Communication Department of HEAD…