23.06.2022
ISSUE #13 – Theses of today and tomorrow
As the academic year draws to a close, ISSUE invites you to discover a selection of exemplary theses written by graduates from the various master's programs at HEAD – Genève in 2021…
As the academic year draws to a close, ISSUE invites you to discover a selection of exemplary theses written by graduates from the various master's programs at HEAD – Genève in 2021…
Vanishing flower pots that herald a world in decay, the death of a tombstone cutter that leaves a great void, and a nightmarish birthday surprise in the open country. These stories, imagined…
On the 18th of June, 2022, documenta fifteen will open its doors in Kassel. The Indonesian collective ruangrupa run this new edition of the German five-year event, seeking to embed it in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Badaboum collective was created in 2018 in Geneva during a workshop delivered as part of the [inter]action major in Visual Arts. Until 2020, Badaboum carried out a whole series of experiments,…
In 1996, shortly before the handover of Hong Kong to China, an artist sprayed the statue of Queen Victoria with red paint and disfigured it with a hammer. The meaning of this…
In this text, Roman Karrer examines the way in which the names of streets, squares or mountains lend such places a symbolic dimension. The name of the botanist and zoologist Louis Agassiz,…