
Summaries of Co-Research Projects
HEAD Projects How to survive in the Swiss art school jungle The project of Daniel Zea, Hyunji Lee and Andrea Nucamendi is concerned with the inequalities faced by non-European students at Swiss art schools. The research group that understands itself…

Disability, ableism and the body in art schools
Colloquium no. 5; Friday 3rd July 2015, 18.00 at HEAD – Genève The assumption that everybody is physically and mentally fit, efficient and productive is so much at the heart of higher education that ableism is often times not considered when it comes…

Invite to colloquium 5: Disability, ableism and the body: Diversifying, the politics of representation and queering art school
Friday, 3rd of July 2015 18.00h Xavier Bouvier, Haute École de Musique (HEM) Welcoming and introductory remarks 18.15h – 19.45h Sébastien Kessler: Le freak, c’est chic In his talk, Sébastien Kessler – “survivor of eugenics” or “opportunistic slacker” – embraces…

Global Exclusion and Diversity: Reading Migration and Gender in Art Schools
Colloquium no. 4 Friday 24th April 2015, 18.00 at ZHdK Radical lectures delivered in less radical institutional settings tend to be opened by official welcome notes that are well-intended, but often boring or that even downplay the radical stance the lecture…

Public lecture by Jackie McManus
18.03.2015, ZHdK: Hopes and Fears for Art: Policy and Practice in Widening Participation in Art and Design Higher Education in the UK Jackie McManus (University of the Arts, London) Jackie McManus’ evening lecture drew on one of the core references…
24./25. April 2015: Global Exclusion and Diversity
ÖFFENTLICHE ABENDVORTRÄGE Global Exclusion and Diversity: Reading Migration and Gender in Art Schools Freitag 24. April 2015, 18.00 – 20.15, mit anschliessendem Apéro Riche Die Referentinnen Melissa Steyn und Marie Buscattobefragen in ihren Vorträgen Diversität, Geschlecht und Migration im Kunstfeld aus…

De-Privileging Art School: antisexist and antiracist methods
Colloquium no. 3: Friday 27th February 2015, 18.00 at HEAD-Genève “Exception is a comfortable situation, allowing elasticity and singularity in our daily work, in our daily institutional management and in our world view.” Lysianne Léchot, dean of Studies at Geneva…

27./28. Feb. 2015: De-Privileging Art School
Colloquium no. 3 De-Privileging Art School: antisexist and antiracist methods, feminist, queer and postcolonial perspectives on knowledge production Friday 27th and Saturday 28th February 2015 Haute école d’art et de design, HEAD – Geneva, Auditoire, Boulevard James Fazy 15, 1201 Geneva…
18.03.2015: öffentlicher Vortrag von Jackie McManus
Jackie McManus (London) Nachdem Jackie McManus (University of the Arts London) ihren Abendvortrag für das zweite Kolloquium von Art.School.Differences leider kurzfristig absagen musste, laden wir die interessierte Öffentlichkeit am Mittwoch, den 18. März 2015 ab 18.00 Uhr zu ihrem öffentlichen…
Bildungs- und Kunstsoziologie: Das zweite Kolloquium von Art.School.Differences am 28. und 29. November 2014 an der ZHdK
Im Zentrum des 2. Kolloquiums von Art.School.Differences standen soziologische Forschungskonzepte. Die beiden öffentlichen Vorträge wurden von Ulf Wuggenig (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) und Olivier Moeschler (Université de Lausanne) gehalten. Jackie McManus musste ihren Vortrag zu «Hopes and Fears for Art: policy…