HEAD at home and at ArtGenève...
This week: HD at LiveInYourHead and Hinterland at ArtGenève

LiveInYourHead
Ceel Mogami de Haas and Vianney Fivel present HD
Exhibition: 29 January to 22 February 2014

Hinterland
Jimmie Durham, Jérémie Gindre, Jelena Martinović, Amy O’Neill, Marta Riniker-Radich
Curator : Yann Chateigné
Exhibition: 30 January to 2 February 2014

This week HEAD Geneva is inaugurating two exhibitions focusing on research by emerging artists who have studied here. HD looks at hi-tech images in contemporary video art, while Hinterland explores artists’ views of Alpine geology – two projects opening in turn at LiveInYourHead, HEAD’s exhibition space, and ArtGenève, an art fair where the school’s work is now being presented for the third year running.

LiveInYourHead presents an exhibition by Ceel Mogami de Haas and Vianney Fivel that explores contemporary uses of high-definition video. Ranging between hyper-real worlds and disturbing strangeness, and designed in terms of editing various sources and timeframes in space, HD uses furniture specially designed by the two Geneva-based artists.

Taking part in the exhibition are a number of the most prominent artists on today’s international video scene, from Ed Atkins (UK) to the recent winner of the Turner Prize Laure Prouvost (France/UK) and Anne de Vries (Netherlands). Critics and theorists will also give a series of video lectures that progressively incorporate the flow of images. Ceel Mogami de Haas and Vianney Fivel are themselves artists; graduates from HEAD’s Work.Master programme, they live and work in Geneva.

At the ArtGenève art fair, HEAD presents Hinterland, an exhibition that brings together the work of five international artists who have left their mark on the school’s history from the late 1960s to the present decade.

From two million to just over ten thousand years ago, the Geneva area was a vast sheet of ice pierced by rocky mountaintops and in some places several thousand metres thick. When this melted, it left the area as we now know it: eroded and dotted with moraines and erratic boulders attracted by the movement of the elements. This landscape, or rather this disrupted geology, has in turn left its mark on the artists that have lived here – so that we could now envisage a history of forms seen through the prism of interest in the physical Alpine environment.

The exhibition thus presents an outline of work by artists of various generations who have passed through Geneva, from Jimmie Durham’s collection of stones to Jérémie Gindre’s rocky creations, and from Amy O’Neill’s glacier studies and Marta Riniker-Radich’s dreamlike visions to Jelena Martinovi****ć’s research at the boundaries of art and science.

A lecture at 4 p.m. on Thursday 30 January will add depth to these outlines in a research project midway between science and fiction, geology and genealogy, art and exploration.

Ceel Mogami de Haas and Vianney Fivel present HD
With Ed Atkins, Alex Gvojic, Brenna Murphy, Elizabeth Price, Laure Prouvost, Jon Rafman, Rachel Reupke and Anne de Vries, and contributions by Yann Chateigné, Tim Johnson, Wayne Koestenbaum, Ida Soulard and Stefan Wagner
Exhibition 29 January to 22 February 2014