Rosa Brux and Oraibi (the traveling bookstore and curatorial facility based in Geneva) have invited over for a weekend the artist and designer Clémence Seilles, together with The Estate of Matt Montini, to come up with a display for a selection of books. Selected from its catalogue, the works are articulated around literary and artistic sources steeped in a refashioned pan-European…

The lesbian archives teach us a history we learned little or nothing about in school. Did you take part in these struggles, gatherings and the celebrations that came with them? We invite you to tell your story using an item from your desk drawers or storage closet (photos, leaflets, poems, letters, flyers, objects, etc.) during an evening of discussion and shared remembrance of these protests…

Former guest workers talk about their experiences in historic places in the city. NMB, Faubourg du Lac 52, 2501 Bienne.

Juriste de formation, Marie-Hélène Lahaye tient depuis 2013 le blog Marie accouche là qui a pour but l’exploration féministe et politique autour de la naissance. Elle vient de publier son livre Accouchement : Les femmes méritent mieux aux éditions Michalon.

Marie Frampier est commissaire d’exposition indépendante et critique d’art. Sa pratique curatoriale questionne principalement la mise en exposition de la performance contemporaine, avec des expositions, des programmes de performances ou des formats hybrides situés entre symposium et performances invisibles. La dimension performative du commissariat d’exposition et de la critique d’art est un…

Diplômée de la Haute Ecole de Santé à Genève, Mathilde Aroud est sage-femme indépendante à Genève. Son mémoire de fin d’étude porte sur «le vécu des femmes qui pratiquent l’allaitement maternel prolongé», elle a aussi rédigé un article sur ce sujet paru dans le magazine sage-femme.ch.

Mauricio Leon Callao, *1976 “Hello, my name is Mauricio Leon, and I’m a person like you, who has desires, dreams, and opinions… I do not accept any State labeling me a ‘foreigner,’ ‘B visa,’ or ‘Extra-European.’” With those words in mind and a black letter B painted on his face, Mauricio Leon decided one day to walk up and down the streets of Geneva, publicly displaying the discriminatory mark…

Né en 1985, il vit et travaille à Gaillard, France. Son travail, porté par les notions d’information, de spéculation et de probabilité, s’accompagne d’une dimension collaborative et curatoriale. Cofondateur de Monstrare, il mène depuis 2012, le Monstrare Camp, une expérience communautaire au sein d’un domaine troglodytique de 30 000 m2 à Dampierre sur Loire. Il développe Bermuda, un site…

Today, like yesterday, migrant workers face issues and situations that profoundly affect their lives. The exhibition will include two moments for exchanges about lived experiences. In partnership with the Centre de contact Suisses-Immigrés. Le Commun, Rue des Bains 28, 1205 Genève.

Naturopathe installée à Lausanne depuis une quinzaine d’années, Mireille Currat s’est spécialisée au fil des ans en santé des femmes. Sous la supervision de Rina Nissim d’abord, puis, au travers de nombreuses expériences et échanges au quotidien avec les femmes venues la consulter. Sa pratique s’est également nourrie des approches Kousmine et ayurvédique.

MONUMENT n. Latin monumentum. 1. A statue, building, or other structure erected to commemorate a famous person or notable event. A memorial, e.g., triumphal arch, column, trophy, etc. Monument to the dead, erected in memory of the dead from the same community, or victims of the same catastrophe. 2. A structure or stone erected, or pile of stones, which have a religious or symbolic value. 3. A…

A graduate of the Geneva Haute Ecole de Santé, Aroud and Donnez are independent midwives in Geneva. They wrote a master’s thesis on the experiences of women who practice long-term breastfeeding. They have also written an article on the subject for the magazine sage-femme.ch Centre d’art contemporain Genève, Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers 10, 1205 Genève.

The inaugural exhibition of the Rosa Brux collective art venue is devoted to the French artist Marie Reinert and the impossible connection generated by the adaptation of her work to the format of the monographic catalogue. The chance to rethink what in a performative practice like Reinert’s immediately renders the question of her archive problematic. The immersion she undertakes in each of her…

(Genève, *1929) Athée, libre penseur et anarchiste, Narcisse Praz s’installe à Genève où il participe, en parallèle à son activité de commerçant horloger, à la rédaction d’un hebdomadaire satirique libertaire intitulé « La Pilule » entre 1970 et 1975. En 1973, il est en liste aux élections du Grand Conseil avec le « Parti sans payez », parti qui se veut une satire de la politique…

Diplômée de la Haute Ecole de Santé à Genève, Nathalie Donnez est sages-femmes indépendantes à Genève. Son mémoire de fin d’étude porte sur «le vécu des femmes qui pratiquent l’allaitement maternel prolongé», elle a aussi rédigé un article sur ce sujet paru dans le magazine sage-femme.ch.

A naturopath who specializes in women’s health, Karen Morand has been a therapist and teacher of gynecological naturopathy for more than ten years. Her practice is about helping women from their pre-teen years through menopause, using companion plants for women, natural remedies and energetic treatment for all female disorders. She teaches how to manage fertility reliably without using hormones,…

Nicolas Moulin est né à Paris en 1970. Il réalise des installations, de la vidéo, des photos et du son. Son travail s’attache à fabriquer des “fictions” sans narration inspirées de la littérature et du cinéma d’anticipation.

Nina Kennel studied performance at HEAD–Genève, Geneva School of Art and Design and is currently conducting further research at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Her work focuses, among other areas, on the creation of narratives based on events and works from the world of the arts and contemporary cinema. She is particularly attentive to the audience’s experience,…

Fusing synthetic polymorphism and the serendipity occasioned by his constant poking around in the social networks, Thomas Koenig plays with the plasticity of art materials to point up and enhance their formal and semantic mutability. First merely collecting objects, the artist then takes off from any one of a range of processes to create installations. The artifacts forming them are made visible…

Notre Histoire Compte est un projet démarré en 2018 et réalisé en collaboration avec Isabelle Sentis, initiatrice du projet Queercode (autour de la mémoire des femmes lesbiennes durant la 2e guerre mondiale) et intervenante régulière à Lestime, accompagnée de Sophie Meyer, ancienne membre du comité de Lestime. Depuis quelques années, la planète LGBTIQ se mobilise pour rassembler et organiser ses…

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Nous, saisonniers, saisonnières… Genève, 1931-2019, this study elaborates on the show’s themes to provide visitors with an additional resource, but also to keep alive their memory of the event. With this publication, we hope to offer readers an in-depth reminder of the show through image and text. Like the exhibition it covers, the book version of…

Lettres ouvertes (2019) de Katharine Dominicé Les Traces (2019) de Pablo Briones Projection des films témoignant de la migration de travail hier et aujourd’hui. En présence de la réalisatrice et du réalisateur. Forum Meyrin, Foyer du Théâtre, Place des Cinq-Continents 1, 1217 Meyrin.

In November 2018, the curators of the show Nous, saisonniers, saisonnières… Genève 1931 – 2019 put out a call for projects. They were looking for an original proposal to create a series of portraits of former guest workers. I sensed their desire to record authentic testimonies with a film concept of some kind. Passing on the story of these guest workers’ lives to their children and grandchildren…

(Genève, *2012) Oraibi + Beckbooks est une librairie indépendante dédiée à l’art et à la pensée critique. Elle a pour vocation d’accueillir et de promouvoir des artistes, penseurs et éditeurs à travers un large catalogue de publications suisses et étrangères. La sélection de livres — neufs et d’occasion — s’articule autour de publications artistiques contemporaines (monographies, catalogues,…

Rosa Brux and Oraibi (the traveling bookstore and curatorial facility based in Geneva) have invited over for a weekend the artist and designer Clémence Seilles, together with The Estate of Matt Montini, to come up with a display for a selection of books. Selected from its catalogue, the works are articulated around literary and artistic sources steeped in a refashioned pan-European…

In 2018, a legal advice clinic was held at Forde, which we organized in conjunction with Lab-of-Arts, an association made up of lawyers specializing in copyright law. Feeling at the time that criticism was no longer sufficient to advance the issues encountered on a daily basis by actors in the artistic world, support from the legal sector made it possible to offer a concrete solution and to bring…

Pablo Briones Tucumán, *1983 Domitila is an indigenous Peruvian woman who has been an undocumented domestic worker in Geneva for over 20 years. With the death of her daughter several years earlier, she faced an unprecedented situation for her, namely financial hardship and extreme isolation because she speaks only Quechua and Spanish. Having reached the age of retirement but without the…

(La plata, *1977) Vit et travaille à Genève La pratique de Patricio Gil Flood questionne la notion de travail et de loisir dans le champ de l’art, le rapport entre théorie et pratique, écriture et performance. Il est co-fondateur du projet collectif et multiforme Macaco Press qui se joue des notions d’auteur et d’identité. Comme il le proclame lui-même, Macaco Press est un projet en constante…

(Lausanne, 1972, Bonn, 1963) Leur travaux revisitent souvent des documents du passé, photos ou films en général, puisant dans l’histoire des moments queer effacés ou illisibles. Ces travaux présentent des corps qui sont en mesure, non seulement de traverser les époques, mais aussi de tisser des liens entre ces différentes époques, laissant présager ainsi la possibilité d’un futur queer.

Protection Room is an exhibition wherein five artists will inhabit « Rosa Brux », which originally functioned as a flat. Protection Room explores nuances of transparency and opacity and the thin line between the private and the public – questioning if this line still exists. During a week five artists respond to different aspects and tactics of ‘hiding’ and ‘covering over’ (« protection ») –…

“The ground floor sitting room is connected to the rooms above by a stairway whose ramp is a shaky thing; you leap and fall from it; from it you speak up or take a running jump towards the chandelier. The first floor is reserved for the leads; it’s Olympus and the extras don’t venture up there. It’s up there that you pack your bags, where the gang meets, the mean tricks are planned out, and the…