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Conversation autour de "End Credits"
For years, the FBI monitored the activities of Eslanda and Paul Robeson, both civil rights activists and communist sympathisers in the United States. The artist Steve McQueen makes this surveillance visible in a work that combines sound recording and…
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Femmage to Marion von Osten
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 decolonial approach to modernity, von Osten taught for…
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Principles for an Open-Ended Artistic Research
Statements by Anthony Masure and Doreen Mende
As a member of one of the signatory umbrella organizations of the Vienna Declaration on Artistic Research – the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) – the HEAD – Genève is indirectly linked…
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Politics and Aesthetics of Film Montage
From Cinema to Installation
Against a deluge of images, certain forms of montage, compilation and spatialization allow for a critical engagement with images. Doreen Mende looks back at the approaches of Soviet women editors and the artist Harun Farocki, who distinguished…
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Head to Head VI – Doreen Mende
Video Profile of the CCC Research-Based Programme HEAD Professor
Head to head is a series of filmed portraits of teachers, researchers, artists and designers active at the HEAD – Genève. The portraits allow them to speak about their often brilliant careers outside the school. For this new edition, Doreen Mende, head…
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Talking Heads – Bahar Noorizadeh
Challenging Cybernetic Conspiracy
This Talking Heads delocalised online gave the floor to artist and researcher Bahar Noorizadeh, who considers the alternatives that stem from art and art-research to block the machine-mania running our future. To do this, Noorizadeh exposes and…