30.09.2021
Film montage and its effects
Montage is one of the privileged instruments of cinema for directing the attention and emotions of the spectators. Alfred Hitchcock, who defined himself as a director of spectators before being a director…
Category : lecture
30.09.2021
Sound, narrative, performative and spatial sequences
These lectures highlight the physical and material dimension of montage in various contexts outside cinema. Through musical composition, theatre, architecture or literary creation, montage can be a technique as much as a…
30.09.2021
Politics and aesthetics of film montage
From cinema to installation
Against a deluge of images, certain forms of montage, compilation and spatialization allow for a critical engagement with images. Doreen Mende looks back at the approaches of Soviet women editors and the…
30.09.2021
Juxtapositions and hyperlinks
Montage from comics to digital cultures
This series of lectures approaches the notion of montage in arts and activities close to cinema such as new media, video games and comics. Freeing himself from cinemacentrism, Frederik Peeters defends the…
21.05.2021
Mind-Set, Skill-Set: Portals to American Self-Taught Art
A lecture presented by Lynne Cooke
Using the notions of mind-set and skill-set, Lynne Cooke suggests combining a cognitive approach with an anthropological reading in order to critically analyse the career and reception of several American self-taught artists.
21.05.2021
Auto-reverse learning: Daniel Johnston and recording
A podcast by Christophe Kihm
Portrayed as an absolute oddity, both solitary and providential, the American singer-songwriter and cartoonist Daniel Johnston (1961-2019) has often been labelled an outsider, ‘naïve’ and ‘crude,’ by artistic historiography. Based on readings…
21.05.2021
The self-taught enigma, from the making of the work to its recognition: what can we learn from accounts of learning?
A lecture presented by Hélène Bézille
By evoking a series of discoveries made during her research on ‘informal’ or ‘unformatted’ learning, Hélène Bézille explores the socio-historical construction of the figure of the autodidact. She observes in particular how…
Fine arts, CCC Research-based Master Programme, Fine arts, MA TRANS - Art, education, engagement, Fine arts, Work.Master – Contemporary Artistic Practices
04.05.2021
Uncanny Ocean
Master symposium 2021
Held on Monday March 22nd, the 2021 edition of the Master Symposium was a collective all-day event organised by the HEAD’s MA in Visual Arts Department: Work.Master, CCC, and TRANS. This year,…
04.02.2021
Head voices VI – Dora Garcia
A conference selected in the school's archives
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.…
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…