03.12.2024
Voicing the Archive
What is the burden of the archive if not memory itself? Can we move on from thinking of archives as stores of data, and closer to an idea of a desiring archive,…
Category : video
03.12.2024
Of Queer Resonance
In the foreword of her collection of tape-recorded interviews Autoritratto (1969) Carla Lonzi challenged her readers with the question: “If it had been possible to record what the artists used to say…
03.12.2024
“Les parleuses”: Conversations on Art in Italy in the 1960s-1970s
In Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, Carla Lonzi and Anne Marie Sauzeau Boetti, both engaged in the feminist movement, proposed thinking about art through dialogue between artists and generations of artists,…
03.12.2024
Two Auditionary Prophetesses Facing Scholars: Hildegard of Bingen and Elise Müller
What is the power of a woman who hears voices in the face of artistic and political authorities? The Rhenish abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a visionary and “auditionary” prophetess. Her…
03.12.2024
Art History and Activism: Why Sound Creation?
Why use a sound medium to talk about images? What social role can a podcast play? To what extent is it a relatively free and safe space for conveying an engaged discourse?…
03.12.2024
ANOL1: The First Encounter
ANOL1: The First Encounter is the first 3D animation of the ANOL1 series that explores the rich tapestry of female mythical creatures from Central Asia, shedding light on their untold stories in…
11.11.2024
What does the role of an artistic director entail today?
As part of the Mode Conversation series organized by the Master of Arts in Fashion and Accessories Design at HEAD — Geneva (HES-SO), Lutz Huelle discussed with Alice Bouleau, partner at the…
24.10.2024
Swamp Tales, Trans Ghosts, and Nonbinary (Magical) Realism
This talk focuses on how nonbinary, as an analytic, becomes a portal for rethinking dominant conceptions of temporality, territory, and form within and across social difference. Beginning with literary and media depictions…
24.10.2024
Eugenix, Hyacynth and Protus, Trans* and Eunuchs in Roman Catacumbs
Can we make trans history before the emergence of first-person narratives, and before the very conceptualization of trans issues? The hypothesis this paper develops is that the study of premodern gender transitions…
24.10.2024
The Pope is giving birth, iconography of a masculine parturition
The 13th century in the West gave rise to the legendary tale of a parturient pope, that of the popess Joan. Although this story is at the heart of a rich literary,…