Résultats pour “"Emmy Award winner" "children's books" "origins" "card game" 2018” (1048)
Lucien Langton – Tilt Tower “Tilt Tower is an interactive monumental projection that took place during the Transat Festival in Lausanne on the 28th, 29th and 30th of June 2012. The main idea is to offer the public a fun and original way to interact with the projected content. Any spectator can launch an animation by dropping a ball in a hole situated in front of the building. The aim of this installation is to put in perspective differences in scale as well as the contrast between a physical input and a digital response. The aspect that I enjoyed the most while developing the project was the creation of animations and their micro-nar- rations. However, as a whole, it is often hard to find such events with interactivity. It is also extremely rare to see anything different from the aesthetic clichés of 3D rendering engines. Most of the time, monumental projection takes place in the public space. That s why it was simply a pleasure to build a different way to give a little life to it.” Lucien Langton
Chloé Tun Tun – Last Time Burma “Being the daughter of a Burmese father and having lived in Myanmar, the idea of exploring this side of my identity, and travelling to Myanmar felt like a necessity. When I arrived I felt like I wasn t part of the culture as much as I thought. In contrast to this I felt very comfortable with my surroundings, which made everything feel strange yet familiar at the same time. I decided to use this feeling as the main structure for this project. When I arrived back in Switzerland, I split the photos into two parts, I used installation to create an atmosphere that could translate how the mystical and the mysterious aspects of the country marked my understanding, and my way of seeing and taking photographs. For the second half of the project I decided to create a book. I tried to make this as honestly as possible in the hope of creating an intimate relationship between the country and myself as well as providing the reader with an insight into who I am. It has been an important insight into my life, enabling me to answer many questions in regard to my identity and my work.“
Jennifer Niederhauser Schlup – La Vallée “My project has for theme the Vallée de Joux and its relationship with the watch industry. I have photographed the various aspects of the place, showing them from an unusual perspective. The photographs are manipulated, retouched and set up in order to create a fabricated reality and disturb the spectator. Presented along with a display, this project takes the form of a book. The whole becomes a fictional study. The hardest for me was to meet the inhabitants, the Combiers. My personal approach of the subject has allowed me to improve my technical skills. Some images required a particular setup. Having conducted this project over a long period of time, I have learned perseverance and to keep challenging my vision at all times.” Jennifer Niederhauser Schlup “My project has for theme the Vallée de Joux and its relationship with the watch industry. I have photographed the various aspects of the place, showing them from an unusual perspective. The photographs are manipulated, retouched and set up in order to create a fabricated reality and disturb the spectator. Presented along with a display, this project takes the form of a book. The whole becomes a fictional study. The hardest for me was to meet the inhabitants, the Combiers. My personal approach of the subject has allowed me to improve my technical skills. Some images required a particular setup. Having conducted this project over a long period of time, I have learned perseverance and to keep challenging my vision at all times.”Jennifer Niederhauser Schlup
Collaboration with Baccarat 2012 Following the collaboration initiated in 2011 around the iconic Harcourt glass, Baccarat and ECAL are continuing their common reflection in 2012. The students of the Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship are all working on the same global project, combining object design, scenography, photography and the conception of a final publication. Supervised by London designer Bethan Laura Wood and Parisian photographer Philippe Jarrigeon, each group of students set out to revisit the universal theme of the Vase, starting from the same basic conical shape and questioning all of the Manufacture s know-how. Based on the principles of cutting, engraving, sandblasting and gilding, Vase-O-Rama was created, a hybrid and abundant collection, like a panorama. Witnessing the dialogue between the personalities and cultures of students from fifteen different nationalities, the epilogue of this six-month workshop highlights the contemporary potential of Baccarat s heritage. By pushing each concept as far as possible and mischievously underlining the noble and mysterious forces of crystal, the six final projects explore the uses, materials, and notions of scale and aesthetics inherent in the object. With humour and transgression, the "Vase-O-Rama" collection reveals creations that celebrate Baccarat s know-how. BRICKS Aurélie Mathieu & Philippe Karrer A fluted vase cut into layers borrowing from the codes of the construction game. TARTAN, CHEVRON & HARLEQUIN Ana Varela & David Luraschi Set of three vases reinterpreting the textile motifs of tartan, chevron and argyle. EXQUIS Kacper Hamilton Based on the exquisite cadaver principle, this series of three vases uses various combinations of designs and cut-outs from the factory s archives. SIDEWAY Cahrlotte Sunnen The horizontal cut-outs of the vase allow the piece to be held at an angle while resting on a base. HARNESS Cahrlotte Sunnen The vase has an integrated harness that can be used as a backpack.
Collaboration with Audemars Piguet 2012 For this workshop with the Swiss designer Thilo Brunner, Audemars Piguet asked the students to design small objects that could be offered to the brand s customers. Many projects were developed and prototyped in order to present a large selection of ideas. From the bird call found in the Vallée de Joux, through a topographical representation of the same region, to a glossary of the parts that make up a watch, all the projects draw their references from the universe of the Haute Horlogerie brand. APO Bettina Pozzo Di Borgo Set of three pink gold and wood whistles reproducing the singing of birds from the Vallée de Joux: the Linnet, the Hazel Grouse and the Robin. BOX Ana Varela Wooden box containing a bas-relief of the Vallée de Joux region. MIKADO Olivier Raymond Mikado game with sticks made in typical AP materials: beech wood, brass, carbon, titanium and tungsten. NUANCIER Krzysztof Lukasik Glossary of the various components of one of the AP movements.
Confiscated Book on the archive of the Tinner case. Book on the archive of the Tinner case.
Olga Prader – FaFo FaFo is a Game about fate and/or/vs. Fortune. In the realm of clichés and discussions, play. A book documents the language developed through the rules, questions, punishments and tools of FaFo.
La Chambre à 1,2,3 Dimension(s) Montre à 1,2,3 Tour(s) The DSK case seen as a result of a chain of consecutive actions. All actions are initiated by decisions. This book contains the same decisions and allows the reader to make his own path and explore alternative scenarios and consequences.
The Ambassador & me A son, a father. The first one holds a camera; the second one holds the title ambassador. The camera trembles, the ambassador remains. Documentary / 16min Synopsis His Excellency, the plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Belgian Crown sacrificed his entire life for his country. His dedication came with a price; he never really had time for me, his son. In admiration, I always longed to be like him. However, I feel like I am quite the opposite. I thus, decide to come to Brussels to try to make up for lost time. Commentaire A son, a father. The first holds a camera, the other is an ambassador. A great game of evasions where the son, by dint of (voluntarily) getting his feet wet, manages to draw a portrait of his father (and his own, as a result...). Sensitive and uncompromising, in the little game of who loses wins, the sprinkler ends up (fortunately!) being sprinkled... Jean-Stéphane Bron / Director Festivals 2012 Solothurn – Suisse - Solothurner Filmtage 2012 Vienne – Autriche - VIS Vienna Independent Shorts.Best short 2012 Vidreres – Espagne - Festival Curt. Doc 2012 Trieste – Italie - festival de Maremetraggio 2012 Hambourg – Allemagne - Hamburg International Short Film Festival - Special Mention 2012 Cracovie – Pologne - Cracow International Film Festival Londre - Angleterre - London International Documentary Festival Timisoara – Roumanie - Festival Timishort Film Festival 2012 Vienne – Autriche - La Nuit du court métrage du Festival du film francophone 2012 silver spring – USA - Silverdocs AFI 2012 Hambourg – Allemagne - Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2012 Angers – France - Festival premier plan d angers - GRAND PRIX DU JURY FILMS D ECOLES EUROPEENS Mention speciale EFA Intragna – Suisse - Film Festival Centovalli 2012 Prizren – Serbie - Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival Prizren 2012 Lussas – France - Etats généraux du film documentaire Lussas 2012 Belo Horizonte – Brésil - Belo Horizonte International Short Film 2012 Bern - suisse - Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Shnit 2012 Ghent – Belgique - Flanders International Film Festival Ghent 2012 Huy - Belgique - Festival international des Ecoles de Cinéma 2012 Kiev – Ukraine - Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist 2012 Suisse - Nominations pour le Prix du Cinéma Suisse «Quartz 2012» séction «Meilleur court métrage» 2011 Locarno – Suisse - Festival del film Locarno, séction pardi di domani (concorso Nazionale) - Pardino d oro (pardi di domani concorso nazionale) - Prix du cinéma e Gioventù / meilleur court métrage 2011 Winterthur – Suisse - Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Programmé dans la journée des écoles 2011 Florence – Italie - Festival dei Popoli, séléction officielle compétition internationnal - Special Mention 2011 Amsterdam - Pays-Bas - IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, compétition pour Best Student Documentary
O Signore Stracciarolo Outcast amongst outcasts. From boredom to religious devotion, we get a glimpse into the lives of a gypsy couple in the suburbs of Rome. Documentary / 9mn Synopsis Out of sight, out of mind. In San Basilio you find all kinds of outcasts. Despite living in a neighbourhood plagued with drugs and violence, where nobody trusts each other, Gianfranco and Giò, a Sinti gypsy couple, let us in to their caravan and their hidden lives. We share with them the boredom of daily routine, their religious devotion, some tender moments: the lives of this couple thrive in the face of this hostile environment. Festivals and Awards 2012 Nyon, Festival Visions du Réel
Ponte 5 One man. One bridge. Nowhere to go. Antonio is an aging man who must live on a bridge in the rough neighborhood of Laurentino 38, in the suburbs of Rome. Documentary / 9mn Synopsis In the rough neighbourhood of Laurentino 38, one of the infamous subdivisions beyond the perimeter of the Grande Raccordo Anulare that circles Rome, people struggle everyday just to survive. Built in the 1970s, the tall, drab, concrete skyscrapers connected by overhanging bridges were supposed to house a vibrant Italian community. Instead, the unrelenting architecture weighs on its inhabitants. A portrait of one elderly man who not only faces his greatest obstacle everyday, but lives on it. Festivals and Awards 2013 Nyon, Festival Visions du Réel
Ruth Ruth leads a peaceful life in her elaborately decorated apartment. Until one day, when a mysterious gift is about to turn her world upside down. Fiction Synopsis Ruth leads a peaceful life in her elaborately decorated apartment. Until one day, when a mysterious gift is about to turn her world upside down. Festivals & Awards 2011 SHNIT Kurzfilmfestival, Berne, Suisse Short Films Long Night, Los Angeles, Etats-Unis Festival Chéries-Chéris, Forum des Halles, Paris, France Pink Apple Film Festival, Zürich, Suisse Kiev International Film Festival, Ukraine Festival du Film Français d Helvétie, Bienne, Suisse
Gregor Frei – Bricks & Blocks Rudy is on the ropes. What keeps him living is the friendship with Martin. One day, he has to take care of an apprentice. Fiction / 19min Synopsis Rudy is on the ropes. Alone at the building yard, alone at home – what keeps him living are ball games in the evening and the team play with his friend Martin. When Asim, a bright and sprouting apprentice, appears at the building yard, this friendship gets tested. Rudy must take a decision. Comment Bricks and Blocks is not afraid to assert a certain taste for classicism, in order to subtly carve out the friendship that develops between a grumpy tiler and a young boy of Yugoslav origin in the middle of an immersion course on a building site. At once a story of friendship, love and filiation, the film offers a beautiful space to the actors and the characters they embody. Frédéric Mermoud / Director Festivals Cork – Ireland - Cork Film Festival - Short Film Competition Solothurn – Suisse - Solothurner Filmtage Zurich - Suisse - Jugendfilmtage Bienne – Suisse - Festival du film français helvétique - Prix du bilinguisme Winterthur – Suisse - Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Programmé dans la journée des écoles Bern – Suisse - Shnit int. Shortfilmfestival
Collaboration with Baccarat 2011 For this first collaboration with Baccarat, the students worked under the direction of the two London designers Ed Barber and Jay Osgerby to give new interpretations of the famous Harcourt glass, an icon of the brand, which celebrates its 170th anniversary in 2011. This glass, whose design has remained unchanged since its creation, has become a classic in the diplomatic world, from the table of Napoleon III to that of John Paul II. Les nouvelles propositions, de l iconoclasme du verre étiré Harcourt au détournement des verres en pièces de jeu d échec, démontrent à la fois l engouement des étudiants pour le cristal et rappellent que le style Harcourt est intemporel. STRETCH Elsa Lambinet Stretched Harcourt glass, a metaphor of the longevity of this 170 years old shape. HATS Sophie Depery Series of headgear turning the Harcourt Glasses into vases, bowls and candelholders. PLAY Decha Archjananun Set of cup and ball games made from elements of the Harcourt glass. TOPS Guillaume Noiseaux Lids allowing to squeeze, brew, crush and seep with the Harcourt glass n°2.
Veilhan/Millet/Obrist 6.12.2010, Conférences de Xavier Veilhan, Catherine Millet et Hans-Ulrich Obrist Symposium MASTER ECAL : « IT S ONLY JUST BEGUN » Il semblerait aujourd hui que les notions de carrière, de célébrité, d ascension, d intégration dominent la sphère de l art. La question “en être ou ne pas en être? “ aurait remplacé toutes les autres. Pourtant, il existe bien d autres réalités, des récits parallèles, une manière différente de raconter l histoire de ces artistes, critiques, commissaires qui voyaient l art et l exposition comme un terrain de jeu, de conquête, d inventions premières. L école étant le lieu par excellence de toutes sortes de projections, folles et dérisoires, extravagantes et triviales, c est aussi le meilleur contexte pour transmettre un peu de l histoire réelle et clandestine de ces origines, des grands et des petits commencements. L idée de cette journée de symposium, qui ne revient à aucune thématique, est de donner aux étudiants des classes de Master l opportunité d entendre et de partager le récit de quelques-unes de ces trajectoires uniques qui ont marqué les dernières décennies. Où l on comprend comment le jeune Hans Ulrich Obrist, alors étudiant en économie, loin d imaginer qu il serait un jour qualifié de « meta-curator », décide d aller à la rencontre des artistes de son temps. Une mise en mouvement qui deviendra une méthode. Peter Fischli et David Weiss se souviennent avec lui de leur rencontre et de ces débuts héroïques des années 90. Dans l œuvre de Xavier Veilhan, l universalisme formel, qui semble renvoyer à l idéal de l art classique, se trouve contrebalancé par la singularité des dispositifs de mise en scène des œuvres, des situations et des environnements construits, par la modernité des sujets et par les procédés high-tech utilisés qui convoquent des images de la société de production industrielle et de consommation dans des univers étranges et équivoques. Catherine Millet, qui n avait pas encore réalisé le succès phénoménal de “La vie sexuelle de Catherine M”, un des plus beaux romans des dix dernières années, se souvient de ses débuts de critique d art, de la formation d art press , modèle et contre modèle d une presse spécialisée amenée à disparaître, et s interroge sur l évolution de la pratique et de l écriture critique. 6.12.2010, Conférences de Xavier Veilhan, Catherine Millet et Hans-Ulrich Obrist Symposium MASTER ECAL : « IT S ONLY JUST BEGUN » Il semblerait aujourd hui que les notions de carrière, de célébrité, d ascension, d intégration dominent la sphère de l art. La question “en être ou ne pas en être? “ aurait remplacé toutes les autres. Pourtant, il existe bien d autres réalités, des récits parallèles, une manière différente de raconter l histoire de ces artistes, critiques, commissaires qui voyaient l art et l exposition comme un terrain de jeu, de conquête, d inventions premières. L école étant le lieu par excellence de toutes sortes de projections, folles et dérisoires, extravagantes et triviales, c est aussi le meilleur contexte pour transmettre un peu de l histoire réelle et clandestine de ces origines, des grands et des petits commencements. L idée de cette journée de symposium, qui ne revient à aucune thématique, est de donner aux étudiants des classes de Master l opportunité d entendre et de partager le récit de quelques-unes de ces trajectoires uniques qui ont marqué les dernières décennies. Où l on comprend comment le jeune Hans Ulrich Obrist, alors étudiant en économie, loin d imaginer qu il serait un jour qualifié de « meta-curator », décide d aller à la rencontre des artistes de son temps. Une mise en mouvement qui deviendra une méthode. Peter Fischli et David Weiss se souviennent avec lui de leur rencontre et de ces débuts héroïques des années 90. Dans l œuvre de Xavier Veilhan, l universalisme formel, qui semble renvoyer à l idéal de l art classique, se trouve contrebalancé par la singularité des dispositifs de mise en scène des œuvres, des situations et des environnements construits, par la modernité des sujets et par les procédés high-tech utilisés qui convoquent des images de la société de production industrielle et de consommation dans des univers étranges et équivoques. Catherine Millet, qui n avait pas encore réalisé le succès phénoménal de “La vie sexuelle de Catherine M”, un des plus beaux romans des dix dernières années, se souvient de ses débuts de critique d art, de la formation d art press, modèle et contre modèle d une presse spécialisée amenée à disparaître, et s interroge sur l évolution de la pratique et de l écriture critique.
Hidden Carbon This project is a manifesto initiated by the EPFL+ECAL Lab to go beyond the high tech look of carbon so as to explore its full potential.Two major design schools, ECAL/University of art and design Lausanne in Switzerland, and Ensci-Les Ateliers in Paris, have risen to the challenge. Carbon fibre composites are gradually entering our daily life thanks to their exceptional mechanical properties – incredibly tough but extremely lightweight. Used in numerous high-end sports applications, this material has become a high tech icon – to such an extent that one often forgets its main advantage: to make uniquely light shapes and uses possible, with astonishing thermal, sound or electrical performances.The objective of the Hidden Carbon project is to rediscover the relevance of carbon fibre by investigating original object typologies and uses based on its special mechanical properties. Under the leadership of Jean-François Dingjian for ENSCI-Les Ateliers and Alexis Georgacopoulos for ECAL, the EPFL+ECAL Lab brought together thirty students on this project, in cooperation with world-leading carbon experts – the Décision shipyard and the Laboratory of Polymer and Composite Technology of the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Hexagone: nouveau design français,21–26.11.2010,Gallery l elac, ECAL En collaboration avec l Ambassade de France à Berne, l Association Internationale des Maires Francophones (AIMF) et la Ville de Lausanne, Pierre Keller, président de l elac (l espace lausannois d art contemporain) de 1995 à 2011, présente une exposition d objets réalisés par une sélection de designers français. Vernissage en présence de Bertrand Delanoë, maire de Paris. «Près d un tiers de nos étudiants est français. Cet événement est un peu une façon de leur rendre hommage», explique Pierre Keller, directeur de l ECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne de 1995 à 2011 et président de l elac (l espace lausannois d art contemporain). Grâce à un processus de sélection initié par Pierre Charpin, cette exposition présente ainsi les travaux d une vingtaine de designers hexagonaux parmi les plus influents actuellement. L ECAL et l elac remercient les designers suivants pour leur participation - François Azambourg - Stéphane Barbier Bouvet - Gilles Belley - BIG-GAME - Camille Blin - Bless - Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec - Fabien Cappello - Pierre Charpin - David Dubois - David Enon - Delphine Frey - Alexis Georgacopoulos - Benjamin Graindorge - Nicolas Le Moigne - Clemence Seilles - Inga Sempé - Marie-Aurore Stiker Métral - Martin Szekely - Ionna Vautrin Ainsi que les partenaires suivants pour le prêt de certaines pièces - Established & Sons - Feld - Galerie Kreo (Didier Krzentowski) - Hermès - Ligne Roset - Pfister - ToolsGalerie (Loïc Bigot) - Ymer & Malta
ECAL Bazar,24–26.09.2010,Gallery l elac, ECAL A l occasion de DESIGN ON-OFF, Pierre Keller, président de l elac (l espace lausannois d art contemporain) de 1997 à 2012, présente une exposition-vente exceptionnelle de travaux d étudiants de l ECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne réalisés entre 1996 et 2010. Une occasion unique d acquérir des objets édités par des grandes maisons comme Serralunga, B&B Italia, nanoo by faserplast ou encore Eternit AG et créés par d anciens étudiants désormais reconnus tels que Nicolas Le Moigne, Alexis Georgacopoulos, BIG-GAME ou Adrien Rovero. Egalement à l honneur des t-shirts, des publications et plein d autres surprises made by ECAL…
Kwa Heri Mandima Childhood pictures, the departure from Zaire when I was 10, my friends Watumu, Angi and Amosi, the big shift from a culture to another, identity, memories and footage... Documentary / 11min Synopsis Through the rediscovery of archival images long kept at my grandparents home in Bordeaux, I tell the story of my childhood in Mandima, a small village in northeastern Zaire where I was born. Starting with a panoramic photo of the big departure, I observe and think back, photo after photo, to those first 10 years of this little boy who must, one fine day, leave for the city, for high school. Behind him, he leaves his friends and a whole culture. Life, its mentality, its rules, will have to be relearned. Comment Film about childhood with false innocence. 1 voice + photos. Cut, framed, reframed, revisited, assembled. Which tell us that getting on a (small) plane is not an easy thing. And that it is sometimes equivalent to a decisive step. Jean-Stéphane Bron / Director Festivals Brest, 27e Festival Européen du Film court de Brest Milano, 22nd International Exhibition of Video and Cinema Beyond Duisburg, 36. Duisburger Filmwoche Kiev, 42nd Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist Lille, 12e Festival international du court métrage Ghent, 11. Courtisane Short film Festival for Short Mumbai, 12th Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short & Animation Films Val-de-Marne, 22e Ciné Junior Festival international de cinéma jeunes publics en Val-de-Marne Almeria, 10. Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Almeria, Competition, Poitiers, 34es Rencontres internationales Henri Langlois, Competition, Gonfreville l Orcher, 12e Festival Européen du Cinéma Gonfreville l Orcher, Competition - Prix du public du meilleur court métrage Milano, 21st International Exhibition of Video and Cinema Beyond, Competition - Under 35 Prize Essonne, 13e Festival du Cinéma Européen en Essonne, Competition, Wiesbaden, 24. exground filmfest Wiesbaden St. Louis, 20th St. Louis International Film Festival Montréal, 14e RIDM Rencontres internationales du documentaire Montréal, Competition Cork, 56th Cork Film Festival Recife, 4th Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife, Competition, - Best Image of the International Competition Uppsala, 30th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Competition Lille, 11e Festival international du court métrage, Competition Hamptons, 19th Hamptons International Film Festival Chemnitz, 16. Internationales Kinderfilmfest "Schlingel" Chemnitz, Chicago, 47th Chicago International Film Festival, Competition - Gold Plaque for Best Student Short Bern, 9. Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Shnit Zürich, 7. Zurich Film Festival Paris, 10e Festival Silhouette Sao Paulo, 22nd Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Competition Gindou, 27es Rencontres Cinéma de Gindou Verona, 17th San Gio Video Festival Verona Belo Horizonte, 8th Fluxus International Film Festival on the Internet, Competition - Best Film by the Official Jury Palm Springs, 17th Palm Springs International ShortFest, Competition - Best Student Documentary Short Award Washington, 9th Silverdocs AFI/Discovery Documentary Film Festival Washington, Competition Tabor, Desinic, 9th International Short Film Festival, Competition, - Grand Prix 2011 - Best Documentary 2011 Lviv, 4th International Festival of Short Films Wiz-Art, Competition, - Audience Choice Lisboa, 8th International Independant Film Festival Lisboa, Competition, Leuven, 7th Docville International Documentary Film Festival Leuven, Toronto, 18th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Toronto, Competition Bratislava, 13e Festival International du Film Francophone de Bratislava, Aspen, 20th Aspen Shortsfest, Competition - Best Documentary Clermont-Ferrand, 33e Festival international du court métrage, Competition Solothurn, 46. Solothurner Filmtage Leuven, 16th Leuven Kort Winterthur, 14. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Competition Locarno, 63. Festival del film Locarno - Pardino d oro (Concorso nazionale)
Simona Canonica – Con la licencia de Dios In an isolated village in the Mexican desert, Griselda lives with the wind, silence and suspended time. She looks at life with humanity and pragmatism. Her husband emigrated to the United States, and like other women in the village, the children and the old, Griselda lives in a state of waiting… Documentary Synopsis In an isolated village in the Mexican desert, Griselda lives with the wind, silence and suspended time. She looks at life with humanity and pragmatism. Her husband emigrated to the United States, and like other women in the village, the children and the old, Griselda lives in a state of waiting… The haunting presence of absence colours the portrait of this mother of a family, in her strength and fragility. Festivals and Awards Miglior Cortometraggio Ticinese, Film Festival Centovalli, 2012 Prix Premiers Pas, Festival Visons du Réel, 2011 Best International Short Film Award Lisboa, doclisboa Festival Internacional de Cinema Documental, 2011 2012 Intragna, Film Festival Centovalli, Competition 2011 Nyon, Visions du Réel Festival international de cinéma Nyon Lisboa, doclisboa Festival Lyon, Doc en Courts Aosta, FrontDoc Rencontres documentaires de la vallée d Aoste Genève, Festival Filmar en América latina Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage Festival international du Cinéma des peuples Ânûû-rû âboro Festival de Cine Documental EXTREMA doc
Michele Pennetta – I cani abbaiano Roberto lives in a Fiat Panda parked close to the ruins of what once was the post office while Felice still lives in his damaged home. They are the last inhabitants of the ghost village of Camarda which was totally ruined and abandoned following the earthquake of the 6th of April... Documentary Synopsis The 6th of April 2009, at 3.32 am, the earth trembled in Italy and caused the destruction of the town of Aquila and of 200 villages in the surroundings. Today the survivors live in aseismic buildings which are situated on the hills, far from the rubble. Roberto lives in a Fiat Panda parked close to the ruins of what once was the post office while Felice still lives in his damaged home. They are the last inhabitants of the ghost village of Camarda which was totally ruined and abandoned following the earthquake of the 6th of April. Festivals and Awards Prix du meilleur documentaire, Front Doc, 2010 Premio Film Breve, Torino Film Festival, 2010 2011 Paris, Cinéma Du Réel Solothurn Film Festival Bari, BIFEST Aubervilliers, Festival International du Documentaire Étudiant Lisbonne, Indie Lisboa Tremblay, Festival Terra di Cinema 2010 Winterthur, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Aoste, FRONTDOC, rencontres documentaires de la Vallée d Aoste Torino Film Festival
Claudia Reynicke – La Chienne Agnes is 15 years old and her sexual awakening is in full bloom. Abandoned by her mother, she tries to find a balance between the isolated life with her grandparents in the mountains and her boyfriend, who proposes her to go away with him... Fiction Synopsis Agnes is 15 years old and her sexual awakening is in full bloom. Abandoned by her mother, she tries to find a balance between the isolated life with her grandparents in the mountains and her boyfriend, who proposes her to go away with him. Feeling incapable of love, she is unable to open up to others. Festivals & Awards 2011 Solothurnerfilmtage 2010 Berne, Shnit, Internationales FilmFestival
Guillaume Chuard – Zansio “ The Zansio project is principally an ethnographic and ethnologic study. By showing the culture, the ritual and the power of a generic company, I aim to underline its primitivism and tribalism. My work is presented in tow parts: a trade show (performance) symbolizing the front stage and a corporate behavior guideline (book) representing the back stage of this society… ” Guillaume Chuard
Julien Chavaillaz – Oda “ODA (Operation Department Alpha), is a reflection on the representation of war. I realized a documentary about american troops based in Afghanistan. Drawing my inspiration from pictures broadcasted by a number of media, I photographed war as I imagined it, and possibly as it unfolds in the collective imaginary. In fact, all was stage setting made in Switzerland and France with ultra realistic airsoft players. In parallel, I worked on a mode of appropriation of the image of the soldier and of his attributes. My idea was to transpose them into the universe of videogames, in reference to the role-playing game broadcasted by the American Army on the internet. Finally, I gathered together both approaches with the aim of creating a work, which would sway between reality and fiction. This, in turn, would open threads of reflection on war and its representation, and on the issue of truth and falsity in war reporting.“
Jean Lecoultre: Oeuvres 1990-2010,03.04.2010–28.01.2011,Gallery l elac, ECAL L espace lausannois d art contemporain (l elac) accueille une exposition de Jean Lecoultre, qui vient de fêter ses 80 ans. L occasion de (re)découvrir d anciennes toiles, ainsi que des nouveaux tableaux de l artiste lausannois. Conjointement, sort «Jean Lecoultre ou la haine de la peinture», un ouvrage de 180 pages (avec un texte inédit de Jacques Chessex) publié aux Editions de la Matze. Né le 9 juin 1930, Jean Lecoultre est le fils d Emile Julien, employé de banque originaire du Chenit, et d Elise Jeanne Motta d origine piémontaise. Diplômé de l Ecole de commerce en 1948, Lecoultre devient ensuite employé chez Swissair, à Genève, au service du contentieux. En 1951, il part pour Madrid, cessant toute activité administrative pour se consacrer exclusivement à la peinture, puis il rencontre Acacia Jerez Aguilar qu il épouse en 1952. Les toiles de Lecoultre sont exposées pour la première fois en 1952 à la galerie de la Paix à Lausanne. Cette même année, Jean Lecoultre participe à une exposition collective à Madrid à laquelle prend part Antonio Saura. Il se lie d amitié avec le peintre, ainsi qu avec son frère le cinéaste Carlos Saura. En 1955, il obtient la bourse fédérale des Beaux-Arts. Pour des raisons familiales, il revient à Lausanne en 1957, mais l Espagne reste son inspiration principale jusqu en 1962. Dans les années soixante, il change de technique et de style. A cette période, Lecoultre expose tant en Espagne qu en Suisse romande, à Berne et à Zurich, à Paris ainsi qu à Tokyo. Jean Lecoultre a également un œuvre gravé important. Dès 1955, il apprend l eau-forte et la pointe sèche. Puis en 1967, il collabore, aux côtés de Pietro Sarto, aux «Presses artistiques» de Pully et reçoit en 1969 le Prix genevois de la Jeune Gravure. Il est exposé aux «Graveurs suisses» de Stockholm et la «7e Biennale de la Gravure de Tokyo et Kyoto» en 1970, ainsi qu à la «Triennale de la Gravure de New Delhi» en 1971. De 1973 à 1975, il est membre de la Commission fédérale des beaux-arts et représente la Suisse à la Biennale de Venise en 1978. Depuis, il continue constamment d exposer en Suisse romande, notamment à la Galerie Alice Pauli à Lausanne, au Musée Jenisch à Vevey, à la Galerie Ditesheim à Neuchâtel ou encore à la Fondation Gianadda à Martigny, mais également à l étranger comme à Paris, Barcelone, Madrid ou Cuenca… A plus de 80 ans aujourd hui, il exerce toujours dans son atelier à Pully. L elac remercie la Galerie Alice Pauli à Lausanne pour son soutien.
Lista Office Semester projects from the 1st year Industrial Design students who participated in the 2010 contest Lista Office Design Award 2010.
Werner Jeker «Hommage à Albin Uldry»,06–29.01.2010,Gallery l elac, ECAL L espace lausannois d art contemporain (l elac) accueille une exposition du graphiste Werner Jeker. A cette occasion, 43 affiches sérigraphiées par Albin Uldry à Hinterkappelen (BE) sont présentées. Werner Jeker Né à Mumliswil en Suisse le 25 décembre 1944, Werner Jeker vit et travaille à Châtillens et à Lausanne. Il collabore régulièrement avec un nombre important d institutions culturelles, sociales et commerciales, telles que les Galeries FNAC Photo, Magnum Photos, les éditions Phaidon, la Cité de la Musique, la Kieler Woche en Allemagne, l Expo .02 (conception et réalisation du pavillon Signaldouleur), la SUVA et Nespresso (conception d expositions), la Fondation suisse pour Photographie, la Cinémathèque Suisse, le Musée des Arts Décoratifs, le Musée de l Elysée et le Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne pour qui il crée des affiches – le domaine dans lequel il a obtenu célébrité – mais aussi des programmes, des revues, des livres et divers autres documents graphiques. Il a également été directeur artistique de la communication pour Weimar 99, capitale culturelle de l Europe en 1999. Il a obtenu de nombreux prix nationaux et internationaux, parmi lesquels un Award pour Exceptional Use of Photography in Graphic Design de l International Center of Photography de New York en 1988 et le Premier Prix pour une nouvelle série de billets de banque suisse en 1989. Il a été professeur à l ECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne de 1974 à 1986 ainsi qu à Karlsruhe et Paris de 1995 à 1998. De 2003 à 2007, il a été co-responsable de la filière Communication visuelle de la Haute Ecole des Arts de Berne (HEAB). Il est aussi membre de l Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). Albin Uldry Albin Uldry est né le 25 avril 1932 à Vevey. Il a obtenu son CFC chez les frères De Grandi à Vevey, puis a travaillé chez Neon Mex à Lausanne. En 1963, il ouvre son atelier Sérigraphie Uldry SA à Hinterkappelen (BE) où il oeuvre avec son épouse Noëlle. Durant 46 ans, il a produit des affiches pour les plus grands artistes suisses et internationaux.
Cotonov Vanished A way of approaching the exercise of portrait, Cotonov Vanished returns to the dazzling career of a young and brilliant Russian interpreter embarked in the Cold War who, one day, mysteriously disappeared... Documentary Synopsis A way of approaching the exercise of portraiture, Cotonov Vanished returns to the dazzling career of a young and brilliant Russian interpreter embarked in the Cold War who, one day, mysteriously disappeared. To tell his story, one of his former teachers and colleagues, now retired, lends himself to the game of interview. With, in counter-field, a young woman who translates his words, a posteriori and in a booth. Starting from these visible devices, Andreas Fontana prefers the path of evocation and mise en abyme to the path of investigation. Here, no biographical retracement, but some facts and intuitions transmitted by the old man to which archives respond. Images through which a world where the USA and the USSR confront each other and the silhouette, absent or out of frame, of Cotonov, an anonymous young man with a crucial role to play: to ensure communication between the enemy heads of state. Comment After the Loterie Romande Prize "First steps" at the Festival Visions du Réel - Nyon and the Best Screenplay Prize at the 10th Festival du Film Court Francophone de Vaulx-en-Velin, Cotonov Vanished continues its brilliant international career with a third award, the Best Short Film Prize, given by one of the most prestigious festivals in Italy, the Festival dei Popoli. Andreas Fontana s short film was praised by the jury with this comment: "If someone living on Mars watched this short film he would understand the Earth much better." Festivals and awards Prix First steps, Festival Visions du Réel Prix du Meilleur court métrage, Festival dei Popoli, Florence Prix du Meilleur scénario, Festival du Film Court Francophone, Vaux-en-Velin 2011 Paris, Festival DocFrance Bruxelles, Festival Filmer à tout prix 2010 Buenos Aires, Festival Doc Buenos Aires Ekateringburg, Festival du Film "Russia" Paris, Festival Int. du Documentaire Étudiant de St-Ouen Barcelone, Festival L Alternativa Florence, Festival dei Popoli Lyon, Festival Doc en Courts Beyrut, Festival Int. du court-métrage des écoles de cinéma 2009 Nyon, Festival Visions du Réel Winterthur, Internationalen Kurzfilmtagen Vaux En Velin, Festival du Film Court Francophone de Vaulx en Velin Marseille, Festival International du Documentaire de Marseille Marseille, Festival Paroles et Musique Lussas, Etats Généraux du Documentaire
Il movimento The “habitués” of the bar “Il Movimento” meet regularly to discuss, drink and to forget their worries. This tiny bar is particularly cosy with a warm and charming ambience... Documentary Synopsis The “habitués” of the bar “Il Movimento” meet regularly to discuss, drink and to forget their worries. This tiny bar is particularly cosy with a warm and charming ambience. This documentary takes us through the changes of the atmosphere and the different reactions of the guests in this microcosmos, as one day, one of them – a young friend – dies unexpectedly of a heart attack. Festivals and awards 2010 Nyon, Festival Visions du Réel Bern, Festival Shnit 2009 Winterthur, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Nicolas Haeni – And if we dance? “This magazine contains the remedy for boredom: the boredom suffered by this generation of bourgeois left-wingers or golden youth who lack nothing and who, to make their daily lives more exciting, create new games, delusions and costumes... With all the necessary self-mockery, you offer a solution to passivity, perhaps a new way for the people concerned to express themselves, to rebel or to find a space/time in which the freedom to do as they please allows them to blossom. It s also a way of saying no to work, to the lucrative activity that society wants us to take part in. So man does everything he can to avoid toil, and seeks to create new excuses to escape it by devising new diversions. He sets up this new universe using society s material environment. Doing nothing is also a form of revolt, an opposition to the established system. And the act of creating gives human beings the possibility of realizing themselves, of satisfying their deepest fantasies.“
DeMo The exhibition design is a creative process that consists in moving from the idea of an exhibition to its display and communication. As a multidisciplinary and collective activity, it brings together those responsible for determining the content of an exhibition museum management, curators, exhibition curators and those involved its practical realization scenographers or exhibition designers. The ECAL and the HEAD Geneva offer trainings in different branches involved in exhibition design: visual communication, interior architecture and industrial and product design. Since September 2006, they are combining their efforts to carry out applied research in exhibition design following two complementary lines of research: • Experimentation : by setting up research workshops with the aim of testing concrete and innovative solutions to questions raised within contemporary exhibition design. Three workshops took place: – in December 2006 on the topic of collections (private, public) with Martino Gamper and Benjamin Reichen > images 1-4 – in March 2007 with Alexandra Gübeli and Claudia Wildermuth on the topic of setting texts in space > images 5-9 - in November 2007 with Philippe Délis (curator), Sean Murphy and Brian Studak on the topic of visual communication in exhibition space > images 9-12 • The state of the art : by gathering and diffusing original knowledge, theoretical and practical, on the contributions of design in contemporary museum practice. Interviews with : Chantal PROD HOM, directrice du mudac, Lausanne ; Stéphane JAQUENOUD, designer muséographe, Jaquenoudesign, Penthalaz (dead in november 2007) ; Alexandra GÜBELI, architecte et scénographe, GXM architectes, Zurich ; Philippe MATHEZ, conservateur au Musée d ethnographie, Genève ; Patrick REYMOND, architecte designer muséographe, Atelier Oï, La Neuveville ; Philippe DÉLIS, architecte designer scénographe, intégral phillipe délis, Paris et Rabat ; Paul NEALE, GTF (Graphic Thought Facility), Londres Martin R. SCHÄRER, directeur du Musée de l alimentation à Vevey, vice-président du Conseil international des musées (ICOM). Document to upload (in French) design-museographie.pdfMain applicant sECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne Jean-François Blanc (project leader)Research teamJulien Ayer Luc Bergeron Nicole UdryPeriodseptember 2006 – december 2008Supported byECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne Strategic fund of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO RCDAV)
Made by ECAL,12.12.2008–06.02.2009,Gallery l elac, ECAL L espace lausannois d art contemporain (l elac) présente «Made by ECAL», une exposition d anciens étudiants du Département arts visuels de l ECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne. L occasion de venir découvrir des œuvres souvent inédites d artistes qui ont aujourd hui acquis pour la plupart une reconnaissance internationale. Une exposition qui présente une sélection d anciens étudiants du Département arts visuels et dont le dispositif a été confié à Stéphanie Moisdon, critique d art et commissaire indépendante à Paris, assistée de Guillaume Pilet et Vincent Normand, deux étudiants du Master en arts visuels. Ainsi, ils ont pu orchestrer dans l espace lausannois d art contemporain (l elac) une scénographie qui confère à cette exposition un aspect parfaitement original. On y retrouve des peintures, sculptures, photographies, installations ou vidéo de BLAKAM, Valentin Carron, Etienne Chambaud, Claudia Comte, Geoffrey Cottenceau et Romain Rousset, Stéphane Dafflon, Philippe Decrauzat, Cyprien Gaillard, Athene Galiciadis, Aloïs Godinat, David Hominal, Vincent Kohler, Körner Union, Stéphane Kropf, Genêt Mayor, Adrien Missika, Mélodie Mousset, Guillaume Pilet, Didier Rittener, Denis Savary, Benjamin Valenza… et Pierre Keller. Il est possible d acquérir les pièces présentées dans l exposition. Une partie des fonds récoltés servira à pérenniser l espace lausannois d art contemporain.
Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec: étapes,03.10–22.11.2008,Gallery l elac, ECAL L espace lausannois d art contemporain (l elac) présente « étapes», une exposition de Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec. A cette occasion, les designers français ont décidé de montrer une partie des processus techniques de confection du mobilier ainsi que leurs sources d inspiration, dessins figuratifs ou non, qu ils réalisent en connexion avec leurs projets. Les deux frères ont fait une exposition «rugueuse et atmosphérique», des tableaux en trois dimensions à la fois pédagogiques et poétiques. Ronan (1971), également professeur à l ECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne, et Erwan (1976) Bouroullec signent leurs projets à deux depuis 1999. Leur collaboration est un dialogue permanent, nourri de leurs singularités, et mû par une exigence commune. A l occasion de la présentation de la cuisine désintégrée au Salon du Meuble de Paris en 1997, ils sont remarqués par Giulio Cappellini qui leur confiera leurs premiers projets de design industriel. En 2000, Issey Miyake fait appel à eux pour dessiner un espace destiné à sa nouvelle collection de vêtements A-Poc à Paris. Plus tard, la rencontre décisive avec Rolf Fehlbaum, Président de Vitra, mène à la production d un nouveau système de bureaux appelé Joyn en 2002. C est le début d une collaboration étroite, concrétisée par le lancement d une série de projets comme les Algues, l Alcove Sofa, la Worknest et la Slow Chair. Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec travaillent aujourd hui régulièrement pour de nombreuses maisons d édition de design industriel comme Vitra, Kvadrat, Magis, Kartell, Ligne Roset, Issey Miyake et Cappellini. Parallèlement, ils effectuent un travail de recherche au sein de la Galerie Kreo dont émaneront plusieurs expositions personnelles entre 2001 et 2008. Enfin, ils réalisent ponctuellement des projets d architecture comme la Maison Flottante en 2006, résidence d artiste du CNEAI (Centre National des Estampes et de l Art Imprimé) à Chatou. Élus créateurs de l année au Salon du Meuble de Paris en 2002, ils ont reçu, entre autres, le New Designer Award de l International Contemporary Furniture Fair de New York en 1999, le Grand Prix du Design de la Ville de Paris en 1998 et le Premier prix de la Biennale du Design de Saint-Etienne en 1998. Designers de l année pour Elle Décoration Japon en 2006, leur chaise de Bureau Worknest a reçu la distinction Best of the Best du Red Dot Award en 2008. Plusieurs expositions personnelles leur ont été consacrées, dont celle du Design Museum de Londres en 2002, du Museum of Contemporary Art de Los Angeles et du Boijmans Museum of Art de Rotterdam. Certaines de leurs créations appartiennent aux collections permanentes d institutions comme le Musée National d Art Moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou à Paris, le Museum of Modern Art de New York, le Design Museum de Londres, le Musée du Design de Lisbonne ou encore le Boijmans Museum of Art de Rotterdam. L exposition est co-produite avec la villa Noailles à Hyères (France) et le Grand-Hornu Images (Belgique).
Léonore Baud – Lovers of the Nile Young couples in search of intimacy on the banks of the Nile in Cairo. Léonore Baud tries to catch them with her camera in a long tracking shot in a car; but as soon as the lovers feel observed, they stop snogging. Uncomfortable with this device, the director stops shooting. What she would like to do is to get out of the car and film the couples openly. A step that Egyptian moral rules make impossible however. Lovers of the Nile poses a fundamental question of the cinema of reality. Can we force people to be filmed? Documentary Synopsis Young couples in search of intimacy on the banks of the Nile in Cairo. Léonore Baud tries to catch them with her camera in a long tracking shot in a car, but as soon as the lovers feel they are being watched, they stop snogging. Uncomfortable with this device, the director stops shooting. What she would like to do is to get out of the car and film the couples openly. A step that Egyptian moral rules make impossible however. Lovers of the Nile poses a fundamental question of the documentary genre: can we force people to be filmed? Continuing her adventure, the filmmaker organizes a casting session where she chooses a couple to whom she proposes to play the game of love in front of the camera. But the young people do not succeed, because for them, kissing in public is transgressing the rules of propriety. Léonore Baud doesn t let herself be discouraged, and that s the whole point of her film. She is therefore going to be interested in the origins of these moral prohibitions. She starts looking for information on the subject from Egyptian filmmakers and the head of the censorship. They all told her that the gap between the Arab and Western world is deep, and that she had to accept that the ethical, moral and cultural rules that govern Egypt are different from her own. The filmmaker will therefore not make Lovers of the Nile, but will instead offer us a subtle reflection on the profession of filmmaker. Comment Making a documentary on lovers in Cairo: this is the project of a young Swiss student of cinema who quickly comes up against a term that is absolutely foreign to his work: censorship. A short journey through the world of contemporary Egyptian cinema in search of encounters, replies and confrontations with images and reality. Cécile Tanner ( Catalogue du Festival "Visons du Réel", 2008) Festivals and awards 2012 Bought by and broadcasted on TV5 Monde 2008 Nyon, Festival Visions du Réel
Best of ECAL,10.10–21.12.2007,Gallery l elac, ECAL Conjointement à la sortie du livre «ECAL: A Success Story in Art and Design», l ECAL/Ecole cantonale d art de Lausanne présente sa première exposition à l elac (l espace lausannois d art contemporain) dans les nouveaux murs de l ECAL à Renens. Cet événement propose des sculptures, peintures, photographies, vidéos ou encore objets de professeurs, intervenants et étudiants qui ont côtoyé l école depuis 1995. Le choix des pièces a été opéré par John M Armleder, artiste mondialement connu et professeur à l ECAL. Nul doute que Renens n avait encore jamais pu s enorgueillir d accueillir une exposition d art et de design avec des personnalités d un tel renom. Une semaine seulement après avoir inauguré son nouveau bâtiment, l ECAL présente «ECAL: A Success Story in Art and Design». Une exposition qui retrace les douze dernières années de cette institution – depuis que Pierre Keller en est le directeur (de 1995 à 2011) – et dont le choix des pièces a été confié à John M Armleder. Ainsi, le célèbre plasticien a pu orchestrer dans l espace lausannois d art contemporain (l elac) un choix d artistes reconnus qui confère à cette exposition un niveau mondial en art et en design. On y retrouve des peintures, dessins, gravure, sculptures, photographies, vidéos, affiches ou installations d Olivier Mosset, Steven Parrino, Luc Andrié, Pierre Keller, Philippe Decrauzat, Karim Noureldin, Stéphane Dafflon, Francis Baudevin, John Tremblay, Sylvie Fleury, François Morrelet, Fabrice Gygi, Pierre Vadi, Jacques Bonnard, Bertrand Lavier, Gloria Friedmann, David Monnet, Aloïs Godinat, Ignazio Bettua, Ugo Rondinone, Inez Van Lamsweerde, Xavier Veilhan, John M Armleder. Luc Aubort, Stéphane Kropf, Laurent Pache, Cyprien Gaillard, Denis Savary, Christian Pahud, Jean Otth, Valentin Carron, Geoffrey Cottenceau ou encore M/M Paris. Le design industriel y est également bien représenté avec des projets typiquement made in ECAL comme The Festive Kitchen ou ex-écal, ainsi que des réalisations de Nicolas Le Moigne, Alexis Geogacopoulos, Vladimir Jaccard, Big-game, Tetê Knecht. Cet événement accompagne la parution du livre ECAL: A Success Story in Art and Design, édité par JRP RINGIER.
ECAL resident at La Becque - Spring semester 2024
Based in London, Philippe Malouin is a British-Canadian product designer and interior architect born in 1982. A graduate of the Design Academy in Eindhoven, he also studied at the École nationale supérieure de création industrielle in Paris and at the Université de Montréal.
In his practice, Malouin celebrates geometric shapes, natural materials, imperfections and contrasts, creating avant-garde objects that have won him numerous awards, including Designer of the Future from W Hotels and Best Use of Material from Wallpaper. He is particularly renowned for creating art objects, installations and furniture such as tables, rugs, chairs and lights.
Born in 1993, Thaddé Comar is a French-Swiss photographer who graduated from ECAL in 2018. His work explores contemporary social and political dynamics, with a particular focus on protest movements. He has dedicated several years to documenting the Black Bloc movement in Paris. In 2022, he published How Was Your Dream? (Mörel Books), a book on the protests in Hong Kong between June and October 2019, addressing new forms of insurrection in surveillance societies. His photographs have been regularly exhibited, including at the Rencontres d'Arles, the Photographic Center of Geneva, Art Basel, and the 7L Bookstore. He currently lives in Paris.
EXECAL Resident at La Becque in july 2022 - BA Graphic Design graduate 2008
Art director and graphic designer, Emmanuel Crivelli explores the editorial world by questioning paper and digital formats. After his studies in graphic design at ECAL, he works with Philippe Jarrigeon and Sylvain Menétrey for the magazine Dorade - "Revue galante, photographie et formes critiques", which won the Swiss Design Awards in 2012. He then creates, in collaboration with an editorial team, POV Paper and POV magazine, which deal with gender and sexualities. In 2018, he won the mandate from the Federal Office of Culture to create the visual identity of the Swiss Design Awards until 2021. This project becomes a digital editorial content lab, with interactive articles, talks and live chats.
EXECAL Resident at La Becque in August 2021 - BA Media & Interaction Design graduate 2017
Mélanie Courtinat (BA Media & Interaction Design), artist and interactive, creates virtual spaces and speculative environments using mediums such as virtual and augmented reality, video games or 3D. By questioning the technical and narrative particularities of the technologies she uses, she actively participates in the mediation and perpetuation of these mediums in the art world. During her residency, she will develop a reflection on digital creation tools and the representation of natural elements to create a series of open access digital materials.
Loucia Carlier is a French artist and editor, born in 1992 in Paris. She graduated with a Master’s in Visual Arts – European Art Ensemble from the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne in 2017. She was awarded the Révélation Émerige grant in 2020, was a resident at Villa Belleville in 2023, and is currently in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.
Images, symbols, objects, and texts are assembled through embossing, printing, and modeling on the surface of her works, blending sculpture and painting. These compositions form hybrid landscapes of a post-humanity undergoing reorganization. A network of archetypal images and organic elements swell and work from within each of her pieces, where the possibility of a subjective, relative, and resilient cosmology opens up through ruptures. The interdependence of the body and environment is not necessarily the most uplifting in the era of capitalism, patriarchy, and ecological crisis; her work tells the underlying anxieties of a generation born in the 90s. Caves, parts of bodies, architectures mixed with medical, ufological, or psychedelic imagery are printed and sculpted onto the surface of her pieces. Sometimes enhanced with makeup, her works act as a second skin: reactive to external aggressions and internal inflammations that one struggles to hide.
Her work is regularly featured in solo and group exhibitions (Le Nouveau Printemps in Toulouse, CAC Brétigny, Salon de Montrouge, Villa Belleville, Swiss Art Awards, Ateliers de la Ville de Marseille, Forde, Contemporary Art Center of Geneva, Villa Noailles, Villa Emerige, High Art, Ferme de la Chapelle, Wallriss, Hamlet Zurich, Art:Concept, Artgenève, Museum of Fine Arts of Lausanne…). In parallel to her artistic practice, she has co-directed the independent magazine Klima since 2018. Dedicated to the intersection of contemporary artistic creation, academic research, social sciences, politics, and activist knowledge, the magazine also develops through launches, study days, literary salons, exhibitions, and fairs (Voiture 14, Artorama Fair in Marseille, Octobre Numérique in Arles, Paris Internationale Fair, Salon de Normandy in Paris, Liste in Basel, Art Geneva Fair, Offprint Paris/London, The Salon Nada & The Community in Paris, Forde Geneva…).
Deputy Research & Development
Dr Jonas Berthod is a researcher, lecturer and deputy to the Research and Development sector at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne (HES-SO), where he has been teaching since 2013. Based in London, he also serves as a lecturer at Kingston School of Art and co-organises the yearly exhibition “Behind the Books”. He previously worked as a graphic designer in London and Switzerland.
Nabil Ayouch est l’un des plus importants cinéastes de sa génération. Son premier long-métrage, «Mektoub», devient en 1997 le premier film à représenter le Maroc aux Oscars. «Ali Zaoua, Prince de la rue» (2000), «Much Loved» (2016) et «Razzia » (2018) connaissent également une brillante carrière internationale. Nabil Ayouch est également à l’origine de la Coalition marocaine pour la diversité culturelle (2003) et de Meda Films Development (2006) qui aide les producteur·trices et scénaristes du sud de la Méditerranée.
EXECAL Resident at La Becque in August 2022 - BA Industrial Deisgn graduate 2018
After graduating with a BA in Visual Arts from HEAD-Geneva, Marie Cornil completed a bachelor's degree in Industrial Design at ECAL/University of Art and Design in Lausanne. After her graduation in 2018, she exhibited her work at Villa Noailles as part of the Festival International Design Parade. She then joined, for two years, the studio Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec in Paris. She now works in collaboration with Alexandre Willaume. Together with French artisans and manufacturers, they develop a research project on imagining elements in which to live and interact, seeking to cultivate the multiplicity of their imbrications.
EXECAL Resident at La Becque in July 2021 - BA Industrial design graduate 2018
Iskander Guetta (BA Industrial Design) explored the reception and housing conditions of homeless people with his diploma project ABRI+, finalist at the Swiss Design Awards 2019. He undertook a trip to Morocco to explore design practices outside the neo-liberal Western world and an internship at the SELCO Foundation in Bangalore (IND). It allowed him to gain a better understanding of design in the Global South, in order to better perceive the intersecting issues of ecology and decolonization, which he tends to bring to bear in his practice. At La Becque, he will explore the potential and use of atomic shelters in the face of contemporary urban issues (project developed in collaboration with Tanguy Caversaccio, architect).
ECAL resident at La Becque - Spring semester 2023
As a partners at Perron–Roettinger, designer Brian Roettinger has worked on creative projects with some of the world’s biggest brands and musicians. Roettinger’s work is an uncanny union of punk ideology with a conceptually driven mode of modernist design. He frequently employs architectural strategies such as repetition and structure, while subverting this sense of order by manipulating the production process in unexpected or “wrong” ways (think pulling the sheet out of the printer before it is done). He continues to work with a wide variety of artists and brands taking an holistic approach to the design process from idea to completion. His work is diverse spanning album packaging, publications, branding, campaigns, and product design. He has been nominated for numerous awards included three Art Direction Grammy’s for album packaging.
Strategic Project Manager
Born in Finland in 1991, is a writer and art critic based in Paris. Her writings have appeared in numerous prestigious publications such as Art Forum, Los Angeles Review of Books, X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal, and C Magazine. Her essays on theoretical criticism, literature and visual culture have also appeared in the catalogs and books of Inventory Press, American Art Catalogues, and Semiotext(e). Tarasoff's area of research focuses on the cultural milieu of Los Angeles in the 1980s, and was presented at the Hammer Museum Biennial in 2020, a version; a book entitled “Fantasyworld” containing his writings is currently in development. Tarasoff is also the editor of poet Bob Flanagan's first anthology “Fun To Be Dead: The Poems of Bob Flanagan”, published by Kristina Kite Gallery and Pep Talk.
Claire FitzGerald is an Anglo-Swiss art historian and curator. Her PhD thesis (University of Warwick, 2012-16) addressed the reinsertion, within art history, of artistic practices by women artists of the Birmingham School of Arts & Crafts. Since entering the museum field in 2016, she has notably worked as a curator for the Government Art Collection (GAC) in London (2018-21). In 2023, she joined the jury for the City of Geneva’s Berthoud, Lissingol-Chevalier and Galland bursaries. She was nominated head curator of the Ariana Museum, Geneva, in March 2024.
Based in Brooklyn, New York, Charles Engman is an artist, photographer, educator, and creative director for the sustainable fashion brand Collina Strada. His multidisciplinary practice examines the social and emotional dimensions of imagery and hyper-visibility in contemporary culture, with a focus on the body as a site of mediation between the self and otherness.
Engman’s recent work integrates generative AI, positioning him at the forefront of exploring how technology shapes and transforms the visual and emotional dynamics of contemporary life. His use of AI questions how disembodied technologies mediate representations of the body, visual identity, and cultural production, offering a critical insight into the evolving relationships between labor, capital, and creativity.
Engman is the author of three books: MOM (2020), a long-term collaborative project with his mother that explores representation and intimacy; Hello Chaos: A Love Story – The Disorder of Seeing and Being Seen (2024), a genre-defying critical theory book examining contemporary visual culture; and Cursed (2024), an artist monograph entirely created with generative AI.
Alongside his creative projects, Engman works as a commercial image maker, primarily in the fashion industry, using this practice to research, explore, and engage with the role of advertising in shaping social space and contemporary notions of the self. For his residency at La Becque, he will deepen these themes by developing a new body of work that reflects his ongoing research into image-making, the body, and the economies of visibility.