26.11.2024
Anti-work mode
In this article, Aude Fellay examines critiques of work in fashion, and of work more broadly, in the light of the concept of ‘the refusal of work’, and the call for it,…
Category : labor
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…
13.06.2023
In search of the female user
Gendered representations in computer advertising
This text offers an iconographic study of the figure of the female computer-user based on advertising brochures from the second half of the 20th century. What fictional situations do these commercial photographs…
21.02.2023
What’s with the Gimmick?
Drawing on Sianne Ngai’s Theory of The Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (2020), this essay examines the reception of fashion collective Vetements through the lens of the gimmick, discussing the label’s…
20.12.2022
ISSUE #16 – Profession: creative worker
Artists and designers confront the challenges of work
As both the dominant mode of self-realisation and a tool for creating wealth in the capitalist world, work is constantly being redefined. Our relationship to it has been affected by automation, the…
20.12.2022
Art is work
On the impossibility of demanding social and legal protection for artists without questioning the nature of artistic work
In recent years, numerous initiatives have called for better remuneration for artists. The success of these campaigns is a testament to a salutary change in the status of the artist. For too…
20.12.2022
Étudiant·ex – Artiste – Travailleur·eusex
Intersectionnalité et précarité d'un triple statut
During her studies, Eva Meister took on a number of student jobs as her family could not afford to support her. In her TRANS – master’s thesis, Meister, now an alumna, looked…
20.12.2022
Work day painter
Interview with Yoan Mudry
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,…
20.12.2022
Automation: for or against designers?
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…
07.02.2022
Femmage to Marion von Osten
The late artist-curator is remembered by Lucie Kolb, Pauline Boudry and Doreen Mende
This article pays tribute to the artist, exhibition organiser and researcher Marion von Osten, who passed away in November 2020. A pioneer both in the field of research-based practice and in her…