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Lundis-Livres : Federica Martini et Julia Taramarcaz
Feminist Exposure. Pratiques féministes de l'exposition et de l'archive
What are books for? What role should they play in an art and design curriculum? How does fiction inform critical writing—or is it the other way around? And, for that matter, how does the form of a book enhance the meaning of its content?
The…
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Lundis-Livres : Céline Cerny et Line Marquis
Le feu et les oiseaux. Talisman pour le monde qui viendra
What are books for? What role should they play in an art and design curriculum? How does fiction inform critical writing—or is it the other way around? And, for that matter, how does the form of a book enhance the meaning of its content?
The…
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Dossier #28
Animals
For animal individuality
‘The animalisation of animals is a perpetual condemnation.’ (Kaoutar Harchi, Ainsi l'animal et nous, Arles, Actes Sud,…
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Sortir du récit de la domination exercée sur les animaux
Entretien avec Fanny Vaucher
Why use the Bechdel test model to assess the representation of animals in works of fiction? Julie Enckell speaks with HEAD – Geneva alumna and illustrator Fanny Vaucher about the SIMBA test she developed in 2024, at the intersection of her artistic…
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Lundis-Livres : Clémence Imbert
Why History Matters to Graphic Design
What are books for? What role should they play in an art and design curriculum? How does fiction inform critical writing—or is it the other way around? And, for that matter, how does the form of a book enhance the meaning of its content? The Lundis…
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Lundis-Livres : Emma Bigé
Mouvementements
What are books for? What role should they play in an art and design curriculum? How does fiction inform critical writing—or is it the other way around? And, for that matter, how does the form of a book enhance the meaning of its content? The Lundis…
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Lundis-Livres : Nicolas Nova
What are books for? What role should they play in an art and design curriculum? How does fiction inform critical writing—or is it the other way around? And, for that matter, how does the form of a book enhance the meaning of its content? The Lundis…
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Dossier #26
In Their Own Words
This feature reports on research carried out during the 2023-2024 academic year thanks to the Gendered Innovation Fund that we obtained in 2023 for the In Their Own Words research project. Our aim was to formalise a long-term thinking…
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On the Record
Notes on Feminist Practices of Visual Arts Interviewing
In this essay, the two authors discuss feminist methodologies of the visual arts interview. Adopting the interview to obtain information on women’s experience of art means focusing research on the terms of conversation and language. From this approach…
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In Her Own Words
The podcast captures the essence of a conversation that we had with Polish-born artist Marysia Lewandowska in November 2023, at her studio in London. This conversation is the starting point and matrix of the research project In Their Own Words. While…
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"Supporting those who’ll make the history of cinema"
Interview with Anita Hugi by Julie Enckell
Julie Enckell sat in a cinema with Anita Hugi, Head of the Film Department at HEAD – Genève since September 2023, to talk about Hugi’s journey as a cinephile, her interest in history, and her many professional roles as a movie director, programmer,…
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Observation Exercises
Interview with Nicolas Nova
A teacher and researcher at HEAD – Genève, Nicolas Nova recently published the book Exercices d'observation, which invites us to train our attention skills. Composed of short texts, it is illustrated by sketches which are themselves ways of…
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Dossier #16
Profession: Creative Worker
As you may already know, we have entered the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) era. In this changing world, it is no longer possible to look more than two or three years ahead. The climate is changing, and along with it society, its habits…
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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, painting is an activity that…
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Night Express: When Trains Commute to Comfort
Interview with Interior Architect Elizaveta Krikun
Europe has set itself the goal of re-launching several night train lines in order to reduce the ecological footprint of passenger transport. There is talk of linking Paris to Barcelona or Madrid in one night by 2024. From Switzerland, the Basel-…
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Les voix de la transmission
Interview with Art Historian and Critic Clara Schulmann
Marked out by authoritative voices and a proven research methodology, the academic path may seem fairly straightforward. In her book Zizanies, art historian and critic Clara Schulmann takes a different approach, allowing herself to be drawn in…
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The Freistilmuseum twenty years later
In recent years, historians have taken an avid interest in the radical withdrawal from the art world and/or political activism of certain figures, with diverse motivations and backgrounds, such as Carla Lonzi, Lee Lozano, Shulamith Firestone and Agnes…
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Head to Head – Nayansaku Mufwankolo
In this video portrait dedicated to them, the delegate of Diversity & Inclusion at HEAD – Genève, Nayansaku Mufwankolo, highlights the different stages that have allowed them to develop their practice. From poems initially confined to private…
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Dossier #11
Art and Humanity: What Is Possible? Video Footage of the Symposium
This feature brings together the fields of art, culture and humanitarian action as explored during the online symposium ‘Art and Humanity: What Is Possible?’, organised by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (MICR), the HEAD – Genève…
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Autopsy of an Editorial Experiment
HEAD – Publishing's Multi-Platform Books Collection Manifestes
The HEAD – Genève’s policy is to defend access to the knowledge it produces. To this end, the HEAD launched a new multi-media editorial unit called HEAD – Publishing, whose first collection, Manifestes, brings together short, incisive theoretical texts…
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Agence de tutorat artistique
An Interview with Collective Medium Sans Serif and a Performed Reading by Inès Berdugo
The history of artists is marked by two contradictory impulses: first, to free oneself from the judgement of institutionally approved personalities, and second, to overcome one's own solitude. This double fantasy acts as a motor, as resistance, as a…
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Once Upon a Time
Interview with Annie A. Marca
For her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication, Annie a Marca authored a comic book with stylised illustrations, frightening lights and looming cast shadows. This variation on Perrault’s tale Little Red Riding Hood takes place in a…
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Memories of a Grand Tour – Episode 3
An Interview with Loana Gatti
This third part of the Grand Tour memories is dedicated to the work of Loana Gatti, who graduated from the CCC research Master’s Programme. In her Master’s Thesis, titled “Exploring Alternatives: counterattack of a fallen leaf,” Gatti considers…
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Head to Head IV – Marie Losier
Video interview by Lucien Monot and text by Julie Enckell Julliard
This portrait in two parts of Marie Losier, professor at the HEAD-Genève’s Cinema Department, addresses two of her complementary practises. In a video interview with her former student Lucien Monot, Losier talks about her movies, which are free and…
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Head to Head III – microsillons
The HEAD–Genève’s TRANS– Masters is devoted to students wanting to get involved in socially engaged and collaborative artistic projects or cultural mediation. The Masters was founded by microsillons, a duo composed of Marianne Guarino-Huet and…
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Head to Head II – Alexandra Midal
In this portrait, which takes the form of an interview, Julie Enckell Julliard seeks to grasp the originality and radicality of Alexandra Midal’s thinking, which enlarges the field of design theory by tackling unusual topics such as the links between…