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Paul Reachi – Take It All In!

by Paul Reachi

"Take It All In!" is a 2-channel video installation positioned between documentary and fantasy. It investigates how entertainment influences labor, psychology, and shared imagination. Blending real life stories, fictional scenarios and animal presence, it reflects on generational and cultural attitudes toward passion, work, and existential meaning. Filmed along the Mediterranean and the Lemanic coasts — where leisure and labor often intersect — the piece examines layered realities. The 2-channel format captures this simultaneity also offering material at once hi and lo-fi, mirroring a fragmented overlapping experiences of image, representation, purpose and identity.

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Zuzana Baková – and she said, it loops when you’re not looking

by Zuzana Baková

Water distribution and the infrastructure responses devised for the transmission of its stream, such as irrigation canals, artificial rivers, holding reservoirs, hydroelectric dams, etc., are reframed through the formal attitude of circular sculpture, containing water. A discourse on the control over, allocation of, and access to the resource. Circular shapes and motions allude to temporal constructs such as loops, time capsules, and atemporality. Time and space are treated as variables in this equation.

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Olivia Handschin – EUREKA

by Olivia Handschin

A few years ago, a winnie the Pooh Sock tumbled underneath her bed. The mattress was too small for the frame, causing things to fall regularly between the wooden panels. Winnie hoped the little girl would look under the bed, but kids are often terrified of looking there, invoquing an innate fear of the darkness and all of its monsters. In fact, what lay beneath was a peculiar place, one that collects all those forgotten bits and pieces that slip between the panels— a kind of portal to a forgotten realm, buried beneath dust and old storage boxes. It was the worst fate any household item could endure— a kind of limbo— and depending on the household, it may take a long time before you are found again, if you are ever found at all.

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Mayalène de Roquemaurel – Honte excitante

by Mayalène de Roquemaurel

Exciting shame. The body split, as if divided into several pieces. The pasty thing in the mouth. It runs through my nails, my nose, my epithelial tissue. Tiny cells swarming in the belly, some empty, others full. They try to swell and escape, flowing like a stream through the limbs, awakening the stirred viscera. An endless thread that knots and unknots itself.

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Jamie Soria – eddy

by Jamie Soria

once upon a time a little vampire lost himself in the forest...

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Anna Cocimarov – De deux choses l'urne (qui rit), l'autre c'est le sommeil...

by Anna Cocimarov

Laughter on TV was recorded in the 1950s. Today, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.” This line from the novel Berceuse by Chuck Palahniuk  feels like an urban legend — half true. It echoes Bruce Nauman’s Partial Truth, a cold, minimalist stele shaped like a dead TV screen. Television, too, builds partial truths: cutting, filtering, reframing reality. We watch the news like a sitcom, between forced laughter and banalized tragedy. This installation reflects this fractured perception: two urns — one laughs, the other sleeps. Vessels of memory, they embody both absurdity and numbness. Between laughter and sleep, death and spectacle, the boundary fades — like truth itself.

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Diego Mühlematter – Anybody Out There ?

by Diego Mühlematter

Interested in photographic devices and images, the artist tries to make them coexist by using camera backs as windows. He explore the gray area inside the camera and tries to map this wandering.

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Clara Luna – Réverbères

by Clara Luna

What happens between lightning and thunder? Distance (d) = Seconds’’ : 3 The Lamposts are located somewhere (...) The evasive measure of time; the experience of atmosphere and doubt. 1,6 km

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Duna György – One hour is much more than you think

by Duna György

everybody dries their shit under the sun

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Emma Blanc-Germser – Noce de pigeon

by Emma Blanc-Germser

We're off to tell our own stories, piecing together the crap that surrounds us to make beautiful structures while gradating the shades of brown, beige, black, ochre, khaki, that it offers us. Because when the tears stop coming out, everything ends up coming out through the buttocks. And there's nothing left to do but to go in the quest of love.

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Baptiste Schaerer – La Vanrac

by Baptiste Schaerer

A bull's voice, a linnet's head, an elephant's memory, BANG! a viper's tongue, an ostrich's stomach, a lion's heart, a monkey's grin, as sharp as a blackbird, POUET! as nasty as a caterpillar, BOOM! as stubborn as a donkey, as cunning as an old monkey, as talkative as a magpie, as cowardly as a rabbit YOUPIII

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Caroline Bischoff – Daisy Selfie

by Caroline Bischoff

I want to go out but I also want to stay in.

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Céleste Meylan – Duels

by Céleste Meylan

If you come looking for me, you will find me.

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Amina Loumachi – Pleaser Flamingo-808G 8 inches schlong

by Amina Loumachi

This performance play with themes of spaces. Through sexualities, the artist questions power dynamics, creating a link amongst the bioluminescence concept as a visibility strategy and queer activism. With heels dancing and a neon atmosphere, the project explores the way of inhabiting the space which could either be intimate or the public. The artist amplifies the echo of their heels, which draws the silence while lighting up the space with each clack. A dialogue is created with the public, still but here. A biocenosis takes place where a space-sound landscape exists creating a tangible discomfort. Bodies become a vector of memories, breathing as the performance goes. A shared heritage gets distributed but also reverses the positions of everyone.

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Workshop Una Szeemann

Une semaine  focalisée sur la spéculations et les nouvelles histoires déclenchées principalement par la matière avec l'artiste Una Szeemann. Les étudiant.exs ont orienté leurs réflexions sur le pouvoir des objets, du point de vue de l'art, du fétichisme, de l'object oriented ontology, de la psychanalyse et de la magie…

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Hum Hum, l'ecal à Treize, Paris

HUM HUM MAGAZINE est une publication-exposition nomade conçue par le Bachelor Arts Visuels de l’ECAL dont le premier numéro investit la galerie parisienne Treize. Organisée autour d'une série d'invitations, chaque édition est pensée par les étudiant·e·s du Bachelor Arts Visuels comme une exposition facilement diffusable et activable à l’infini. À l’occasion du lancement de son premier numéro, HUM HUM MAGAZINE investit Treize à Paris pour y déployer son sommaire à l’échelle du lieu. Un projet initié par Philippe Decrauzat, Gallien Déjean et Stéphane Kropf.

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Parasonic: Transmission of fugitive aural practices

with Stéphane Kropf, Thibault Walter, Lucas Erin, Gina Proenza, Joël Vacheron

Parasonic is a research project on the social and racial constructions of aural practices, based on a critique of a regime of thinking and listening to sound that is over-represented in the arts, and which aims to create spaces for the transmission of fugitive aural practices.

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DON'T BE HAPPY, WORRY - ecal students x Kenneth Goldsmith

Inspiré·e·s par un atelier intense et stimulant avec l'artiste américain Kenneth Goldsmith, les étudiant·e·s du Bachelor Arts Visuels ont valorisé des signes subtils du quotidien, transformant des pensées errantes en un tapis : non pas comme un dessin, mais comme un détour ; non pas comme une déclaration, mais comme une collection d'absurdités oubliées. Poète distingué par le MoMA, Kenneth Goldsmith s’inspire de son manifeste Uncreative Writing pour créer notamment livres, textes critiques, émissions et installations à partir de collages de matériaux trouvés.

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FÉLIX VALLOTTON, UN HOMMAGE, musée Jenisch, Vevey

by Zuzana Baková, Caroline Bischoff, Emma Blanc-Germser, Mykolya Churmantaiev, Anna Cocimarov, Oana Cuozzo, Mayalène de Roquemaurel, Eulalie Félix, Louis Fontaine, Duna György, Marsaili Venus Haas, Olivia Handschin, Amina Loumachi, Clara Luna, Céleste Meylan, Diego Mühlematter, Paul Reachi, Baptiste Schaerer, Charlie Schär, Jamie Soria, Nayla Younes

Pour célébrer les cents ans de la mort de Félix Vallotton, le Musée Jenisch Vevey invite le Bachelor Arts Visuels de l'ECAL à rendre hommage à cet artiste suisse emblématique dans une exposition collective. S'inspirant de ses gravures qui reflètent l'ambiance parisienne de la fin du XIXe siècle, des colonnes Morris sont recréées dans le musée comme supports modulaires. Elles accueillent affiches, tracts et posters, échos de la culture contemporaine et des questionnements des étudiant·e·s d’aujourd’hui.

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Workshop with Cheryl Donegan

Week dedicated to experimentation with printing techniques

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Workshop Samir Laghouati-Rashwan

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Seline Symons – Groot geel object

by Seline Symons

Inspired by everyday, banal forms, I revisit our world to create new combinations. A game of childlike wonder. There is room for play, imagination and personal interpretation.

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Romane Roy – OVERRULED

by Romane Roy

[…] You know I've never been to one of these things before and when I think about how many people wanted this, and how many people cried over it and stuff, I mean, I think everybody looks great tonight. Look at Jessica Lopez, that dress is amazing and Emma Gerber that hair do must have taken hours and you look really pretty. So why is everybody stressing over this thing? I mean it's just plastic, it's really just (she breaks the crown). A piece for Gretchen Wieners, a partial Spring Fling Queen. A piece for Janis Ian and a piece for Regina George, she fractured her spine and she still looks like a rockstar, and some for everybody else. (Cady’s prom speech in MEAN GIRLS)

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Giada Gollin – "Ohh I should never have ordered a 3rd bratmeal"

by Giada Gollin

„Just like… Like G G G Like Gugus starts with G and...“

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Ella Minton – Untitled

by Ella Minton

My diploma project is an self-portrait created using ball point pens and Chinese ink on six sections of cardboard that are one metre by eighty centimetres put together to create a three metre by one metre sixty piece. The goal of the project is to represent uncertainty, anxiety and internal conflict. Leaving blank space to play an equally important role as the filled in sections, to reinforce the loss of self in this emotional whirlwind.

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Achille Meier – Let them rest

by Achille Meier

When the juices stick to the burning metal, deglaze generously with white wine.

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Anna Kawahara – Panneau à souffler

by Anna Kawahara

"So, what should we choose? Weight or lightness?"

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Patricia Araujo – Saudade

by Patricia Araujo

«Os olhos da nossa memória vêem melhor do que os nossos.» — «The eyes of our memory see better than ours.» José Sobral Almada-Negreiros How do we know our memories are real and not dreamlike?

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FILM STUDIES

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Archive as a Creative Act: The Absolute Cinema of Gregory J. Markopoulos and the Temenos Utopia

with François Bovier

Artists who produce archives from their own work approach archival activity as a creative gesture: here, the archive literally becomes a work of art. In parallel with the “archival impulse” that has run through contemporary art since the 1960s, this research project examines the “performative agency” of archives when they are constituted from “image acts”. The selected corpus is based on an extremely singular case, the cinematographic work of Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928-1992) and the Temenos archives.

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Lou-Anna Ulloa del Rio – Cinétoile et Life is filled with secrets and treasures everywhere

by Lou-Anna Ulloa del Rio

“I think that the goal of installation art should be to create an experience between objects so that viewers are transported outside themselves to recognise a larger, more complex world.” – Julie Becker

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Nolan Lucidi – Petite annonce

by Nolan Lucidi

I will try harder. I will try harder. I will try harder. I will try harder. I will try harder. I will try harder. I will try harder. I will try harder. I will try harder.

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Ysé Willemin – Move in/Move out/Move on

by Ysé Willemin

(Ah, ah-ah, ah-ah) (Ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah) (ah-ah) (Ah, ah, ah-ah) ‘Cause when love is gone There’s always justice And when justice is gone There’s always force And when force is gone There’s always Mom, hi Mom (Ah, ah) (Ah, ah, ah-ah) I have no choice, I don’t know what to do So hold me, Mom, in your long arms In your automatic arms, your electronic arms In your arms So hold me, Mom, in your long arms Your petrochemical arms, your military arms In your electronic arms (Ah, ah-ah)

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Alix Bitz – Lotto(-portrait), 2023

by Alix Bitz

Installation objects & lithographs Size: approx. 2 x 2 m At eye level, a white line. A void. Looking up, a series of self-portraits stare back at us. Faces in transmutation. A single portrait cannot show the full extent of a being. So it unfolds before exploding to better reappear. Underneath, a collection of objects, like the wanderings of a life that has led to this moment and stops. Memories flow from the heads that have become objects. Through this staging, the shattered quest for a self that slips away as soon as we seem to approach it.