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What Does an Art School Train For?
Some Singular Alumni Stories
There’s nothing rhetorical about the question in the title of this article. Indeed, only a small minority of the HEAD – Genève’s Visual Arts graduates pursue a career as an artist, with exhibitions in galleries and public institutions. The overwhelming…
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A History of Legitimacy
In this podcast combined with a large body of images, Charlotte Laubard (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) explores what she calls the ‘self-taught enigma.’ Multiform, this enigma questions the modes of art learning and artistic invention as much as the criteria…
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Borders of Empathy
A Conversation between Curator Charlotte Laubard and Anthropologist Emmanuel Grimaud
In this interview with Charlotte Laubard, the French anthropologist and India and Hinduism specialist Emmanuel Grimaud revisits some of the fascinating experiments and cinematographic research in which he tackled the inter-subjective borders of…
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Head to Head I – Charlotte Laubard
On the run up to the Venice Biennale 2019, Sylvain Menétrey sat down with Charlotte Laubard, the curator of the Biennale’s Swiss Pavillon and the head of the HEAD’s Visual Arts’ department. The interview evokes the political dimension of Laubard’s…