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…
All those who have visited the Venice Biennale have noticed a monument on the waterfront in front of the Giardini, almost in front of the Swiss Pavilion. It is the famous memorial…
This 2020 Media Design Master’s thesis is dedicated to the design space for Arabic letter-forms in motion. It is an excellent introduction to the subject, which François Harik tackles from the angle…
How can you continue to practise art when you no longer have access to your studio? How do you keep up your studying rhythm when every day feels the same? How can…
This portrait in two parts of Marie Losier, professor at the HEAD-Genève’s Cinema Department, addresses two of her complementary practises. In a video interview with her former student Lucien Monot, Losier talks…
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…
Gene Ray calls for a post-modernism that would fully overcome capitalist modernity and its catastrophes. From a reading of Walter Benjamin’s Thesis on the Philosophy of History and Trauerspiel, Ray invokes allegory…