2024
Team:
Rosario Hurtado, Joseph Popper, Arno Mathies, Alexandra Midal, Dominic Robson, Noam Toran, Eloïse Vo, Martin Zambaz
Collaborators:
M1 Student Team:
Nguveren Ahua, Laurène Allard, Léa Campos, Marta Córdoba Ruiz, Maxime Heta, Sunwoo Lee, Gabriela Luchetta Dos Santos, Aurore Mesot, Sven Odermatt, Lou Revel, Olivia Schalk, Franciszek Sienkiewicz, Marc-Arthur Sohna
M2 Student Team:
Joseph Curle, Luna Deleani, Emile Demerliac, Adèle Guilbault, Camilla Hoffmeister, Victoria Jospin, Chiara Kocis, Hannah Mackaness, Zorana Mitrovic, Chirine Samii, Carla-Marie Savaris, constance Thiessoy, Lovena Verdine, Noee Zahavy
M2 THESIS
Director:
Joseph Popper
Tutor Team:
Jérémie Cerman, Noémi Michel, Sébastien Quequet, Axelle Grégoire, Catherine Guiral
Jury President:
Tania Messell
M2 PRACTICE PROJECT
Project Directors:
Rosario Hurtado and Arno Mathies
Project Team:
External Jury:
Jury President:
Photography Credits:
SHRINE OF THE MONSTROUS LOG:
Practices of self-documenting and record-keeping through performative research
with Ralo Mayer
We will explore various forms of taking notes, of blogging, of diaries in all kinds of forms and media that document and accompany processes of design. Through methods of performative research, we will play with making records, with keeping records and revisiting them. The week will orbit around and employ concepts such as plot, props, and roles.
The week’s secret master plan involves the creation of a TV-series about a well-known monster. Its multilayered plot can be traced back to a specific location that is close enough for us to visit and celebrate accordingly. The workshop aims to offer a box of tools and playful approaches to document and catalyse your own working processes, as well as to reflect and review various stages of research, design, production and publication.
Brief:
Ralo Mayer
Tutor Team:
Joseph Popper
Assistants:
Eloïse Vo
Martin Zambaz
M1 Student Team:
Nguveren Ahua, Laurène Allard, Léa Campos, Marta Córdoba Ruiz, Maxime Heta, Sunwoo Lee, Gabriela Luchetta Dos Santos, Aurore Mesot, Sven Odermatt, Lou Revel, Olivia Schalk, Franciszek Sienkiewicz, Marc-Arthur Sohna
M2 Student Team:
Joseph Curle, Luna Deleani, Emile Demerliac, Adèle Guilbault, Camilla Hoffmeister, Victoria Jospin, Chiara Kocis, Hannah Mackaness, Zorana Mitrovic, Chirine Samii, Carla-Marie Savaris, constance Thiessoy, Lovena Verdine, Noee Zahavy
SOUND WORKSHOP
with Arno Mathies & Dominic Robson
LIGHT & MATTER
with Jordi Canudas
Brief:
Jordi Canudas
Tutor Teams:
Rosario Hurtado
Assistants:
Eloïse Vo
Martin Zambaz
M1 Student Team:
Nguveren Ahua, Laurène Allard, Léa Campos, Marta Córdoba Ruiz, Maxime Heta, Sunwoo Lee, Gabriela Luchetta Dos Santos, Aurore Mesot, Sven Odermatt, Lou Revel, Olivia Schalk, Franciszek Sienkiewicz, Marc-Arthur Sohna
Photography:
Students
The workshop is planned as an inmersive experience to deeply understand the nature of light and its relation with the space. This is done by doing a hands on project with light. This projectual process will from concept to test and prototype conceptualising, developing, building and documenting a real size project
INTO THE VERTIGO: Exercises in Posthuman Space-making
with The Rodina (Tereza Ruller)
A week-long design workshop Into the Vertigo: Exercises in Posthuman Space-making focuses on the spatial sensation of spinning, rotating, and twisting. Participants will tackle the complex subject of dizzy visions through an interdisciplinary approach informed by feminist design methodologies and critical posthumanism. The core method will be thinking through making. Participants will utilize techniques such as 3D printing and laser cutting to develop The Surprise – a prototype of a space or object that can spin, evoke vertigo, or communicate these concepts otherwise.
Rediscovering movement, emotion, and inclusivity, through the means of communication design can prove as a vital mode for creating “sensitive spaces”. During the first half of the week, various short exercises will allow for the exploration of the perception of balance –or its disruption– at multiple sensory, spatial, and social levels. The workshop will also provide a theoretical framework that incorporates the concept of posthumanism, which addresses the contemporary question of what it means to be human under the conditions of globalization, technoscience, late capitalism, and climate collapse.
Brief:
The Rodina (Tereza Ruller)
Tutor Teams:
Arno Mathies
Assistants:
Eloïse Vo
Martin Zambaz
M1 Student Team:
Nguveren Ahua, Laurène Allard, Léa Campos, Marta Córdoba Ruiz, Maxime Heta, Sunwoo Lee, Gabriela Luchetta Dos Santos, Aurore Mesot, Sven Odermatt, Lou Revel, Olivia Schalk, Franciszek Sienkiewicz, Marc-Arthur Sohna
Photography:
Students
GROSS ENCOUNTERS: One-Night Fright Festival
with Noam Toran & Reem Saleh
Brief:
Reem Saleh
Noam Toran
Tutor Teams:
Rosario Hurtado
Arno Mathies
Supporting team:
Vincent Grange & Tanguy Benoit (Collectif KIMERA)
Assistants:
Martin Zambaz
M1 Student Team:
Nguveren Ahua, Laurène Allard, Léa Campos, Marta Córdoba Ruiz, Maxime Heta, Sunwoo Lee, Gabriela Luchetta Dos Santos, Aurore Mesot, Sven Odermatt, Lou Revel, Olivia Schalk, Franciszek Sienkiewicz, Marc-Arthur Sohna
Photography:
Students
Join us for a dreadful evening of talks, performances, screenings and sonic expressions in which we celebrate and think through Barbara Creed’s defining of the ‘monstrous feminine’ trope in horror cinema and its socio-political ramifications. The evening is hosted by the Gross Encounters film club, Espace Dukat and students from HEAD’s Space and Communication department, and generously supported by artists and designers from collectif Kimera and HEAD-Genève.
One-Night Fright Festival programme:
Ervehea Ziza talk will explore the notion of ‘ugliness’ and its representation in the horror genre by applying an intersectional feminist perspective.
The Monstrous Feminine collective members (MonFem Pod) will be presenting a visual essay engaging with the seven ‘faces’ of the monstrous-feminine as analyzed by Barbara Creed and will offer perspectives that go beyond certain problematic theoretical tethers in Creed’s work.
Julie Cail will be live on stage, creating the sound effects for a chosen iconic monstrous feminine horror sequence.
The collectif Kimera will host the Gross Encounters festival and develop a scenography in partnership with students from the master Space & communication.
