Catherine Quéloz and Liliane Schneiter
HEAD/Research Platform and Doctoral Practice In Arts (Genebra, Suíça)

Chair: Raquel Ermida
November 19, 10h50

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Abstract​

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Fire up your imaginary!

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The renewal of the notion of sharing through collaboration is activated by the imaginary of the arts and sciences. The modes of collaboration involve paying attention to the other (human and non-human) in order to create links and refuges. They question the powers that be while experimenting with other forms of institution, strengthening thus the perception of democracy.

The commoning inscribed in the process of collaboration offers a perspective on how to lead a “good life”, in sharp awareness of the cooperation between ecofeminism, degrowth, conviviality, voluntary simplicity, multi-species collaboration, etc. In this “troubled” and damaged world, it is necessary to weave links for the thread not to be broken up.

 

Bio​

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Catherine Quéloz is an art historian, researching the transformation of situated artistic practices, “minor” histories, the effects of social history and gender and post-colonial theories in art and the cultural writing of history. She is the co-founder (with Liliane Schneiter) of the CCC Master’s Program (Critical Curatorial Cybermedia Studies) and the Pre-doctorate/PhD Program at Haute École d’Art et de Design, in Geneva (2000-2015). Quéloz is honorary professor at HES-SO (Haute École Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale) and a consultant for research projects on emergent cultures and the education economy. She supervises numerous PhD theses on artistic practice. She is a member of RPDP-A (a platform for doctoral artistic research), an artistic research NGO. In 2014, Catherine Quéloz received the Swiss art prize Méret Oppenheim.

 

Liliane Schneiter is an art historian specialized in Medieval and Modern Art, and a professor at HES-SO (Haute École Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale). She has taught in numerous institutions, universities and alternative spaces. Her research areas include critical theory of history (Walter Benjamin, the Frankfurt School, contemporary transformations of sovereignty), moral and political history in continental and analytic philosophy, and the potential of networked art for civic action. She is the co-founder (with Catherine Quéloz) of the Master’s Program CCC (Critical Curatorial Cybermedia Studies) and the Pre-doctorate/PhD seminar at Haute École d’Art et de Design, in Geneva (2000-2015). She is a consultant for research projects on emerging cultures and the education economy. She is a member of RPDP-A (a platform for doctoral artistic research), an artistic research NGO.

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