23.06.2022
Les faussaires d’éclipses
Martin Zambaz explores a little-known historical episode, namely the blackout during the Second World War in Great Britain, when artificial lights were banned to protect towns and cities from German air raids.…
Category : public space
23.06.2022
Karelle Ménine : rencontres entre le poème et la ville
In the city, the passer-by, in turn a stroller, a tourist and – more often than not – a worker in a hurry, is confronted with an overabundance of textual material: advertising…
21.12.2021
Art and Humanitarian: Looking
These lectures question the related, though sometimes competing, notions of ethics and aesthetics. Certain symbols make it possible to connect these notions. Similarly, a dialogue between distant perspective and field action allows…
08.06.2021
All Monuments Must Fall
Thinking Through the Proposition. By Gene Ray
In this introduction, Gene Ray (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) reviews a series of recent events, mostly related to the Black Lives Matter movement, which may suggest that a new iconoclasm has begun.…
08.06.2021
Monuments Must Be Edited
By Basile Collet
Since its construction in 1909, the Reformers’ Wall in Geneva’s Parc des Bastions has been vandalised numerous times. Based on this history of tagging and painting, Basile Collet considers the way in…
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.…