From stocks of paper recovered at HEAD – Geneva (print tests, scraps, administrative documents, obsolete documents, stains), students will be invited to publish their own version of the book Comment survivre après l’école d’art ? edited by Olivier Bertrand, Clémence Fontaine and Chloé Horta and first published in 2019.
The workshop is structured around the role of a character to be played: that of the editor, initiating editorial projects placed under their responsibility. This notion of responsibility extends from the published content to the means employed to produce and circulate it. The workshop will allow students to explore the broad concept of editing, namely: making public, reproducing, annotating, assembling, and distributing.
Focusing on the editing process of these objects implies defining their stakes, first through strategy, then through aesthetics. Students are invited to clearly define the address of their project; to conceive appropriate assembly operations to highlight the collected or provided material; and then to find a formatting that closely matches the qualities of that material. They will use only the materials and tools available at the school to publish a book between 3 and 300 copies. This is thus an invitation to develop a context-sensitive and economical design, both in action and in form. In other words: starting from the collection of a material to develop an editorial project, rather than imposing an editorial project onto a sheet of paper.
The evaluation is based on participation in the five days of the workshop and on the degree of active engagement of the student.