Writings on contemporary flux and archetypes

Text for the book Horizonville by Yann Gross

2010-07-09 — essay —

Volume – What You See Is What You Hear n° 01

2010-06-03 — essay —

Alan Vega: Infinite Mercy

2010-05-15 — translation —

Launch of joelvacheron.net

2010-01-01 — web —

Homage to Max Neuhaus

2009-12-04 — talk —

The Very Best in Le Courrier International

2009-11-09 — press —

Reverberations: The urban landscape from visible to aural

2009-10-09 — talk —

Eternal Tour 2009

2009-09-01 — translation —

Jury

Nuits Sonores

2009-05-23 — talk —

Voids: A Retrospective

2009-02-14 — translation —

Workshop Sonic Door

2009-02-02 — talk, workshop —

Ville, Corps sonore

2008-09-16 — talk, workshop —

London Festival of Architecture 09

2008-08-01 — exhibition —

Glocal Ping at Café Oto

2008-08-01 — exhibition —

Helvetic Centre

2008-07-01 — —

Photography and Acceleration

2008-06-09 — talk —

Bye-Bye Black Sheep in The Root

2008-06-09 — —

Lost Memories

2007-12-18 — photo series —

Street Portraits

2007-12-08 — photo series —

inoxreflected.com

2007-11-15 — research —

Leonard Freed: Worldview

2007-09-01 — translation —

Accélération

2007-05-13 — exhibition —

iFace Series

Faire Face: Le Nouveau Portrait Photographique

2006-11-01 — translation —

The city in-between sounds and images

2006-09-16 — talk —

No Right Turn

2006-09-14 — exhibition —

Horizonville: A Journey Through Non-Simultaneity, a text published in the book ”Horizonville” by the Photographer Yann Gross. A visual exploration trip within americanised sub-cultures of the Rhone Valley in Switzerland. (JRP | Ringier, 2010) +

The text “Tausend Himmel and the equivalence principle”, related to a series of the photographer Joachim Schmid, has been published in this French magazine devoted to sound issues in art. +

Translation of the first monograph devoted to the visual work of Alan Vega. This book is published on the occasion of the eponymous retrospective exhibition at Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, May–August 2009. +

Concept and design of the website joelvacheron.net in collaboration with :ratio (8ratio.ch)

This homage to sound artist Max Neuhaus takes place in a conference related to the Art in the City. Festival Les Urbaines (Lausanne / Switzerland).

The French newspaper Le Courrier International published the article on Radioclit and Esau Mwamwaya for his dossier related to the new face of world music.

Talk given at Archizoom, the exhibition space of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), during the exhibition “Corps Sonore: Architecture et Son”. Other speakers were Francis Baudevin, Eckard Kahle and Bernard Leitner. +

Translation of Brian Wallis’ text, “Black Bodies, White Science: Louis Agassiz’s Slave Daguerreotypes” for the catalogue Eternal Tour 2009.

Jury Member, photography department, Ecole supérieure d’arts appliqués / Vevey

Talk about London music scenes for the conference “LDN Music”. Nuits Sonores, Electronic & Indie Festival / Lyon

Workshop and Talk related to sounds and photography. Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design, Geneva (HEAD) with Stéphanie Gygax, Virginie Otth and the collectif Fact.

Talk about the aural perception of urban environement during the workshop “Ville Corps Sonore” (15×10 / Lausanne).

“Around the Shed” is a proposal for the LFA09 commissioned by Denis Charrière, Head of Culture at the Embassy of Switzerland in London. +

“GlocalPing” is an interactive installation designed by Davy Courvoisier and the CAN (Centre d’Art Neuchatel / Switzerland) that connects two different places at the same table. +

Cofounding an association supporting collaborations between cultural actors from Switzerland and the United Kingdom. +

Talk related to my contributions for the exhibition and the publication Accélération.

Article about the racist political ad campaign of the UDC published in The Root, an american on-line magazine devoted to multicultural issues.

Cultural Researcher for Inox Reflected, a laboratory leading in-depth analysis about contemporary visual regime and trends mutation.

Translation of essays for the book Leonard Freed : Worldview published by Steidl and the Musée de l’Elysée de Lausanne.

The iFace Series presented in the exhibition Accélération organised by the art centre of Neuchâtel (CAN) from the 13th May to 30th June 2007

Translation of the book with Nathalie Herschdorfer (25′000 words), Faire Face: Le Nouveau Portrait Photographique, William-A. Ewing, Editions Actes Sud.

Talk related to the photographic project “iFace Series”. Goldsmiths’ College, CUCR / London.

26 artists and photographers emerging from the MA Photography & Urban Cultures programme at Goldsmiths College, University of London. One picture of my iFace Series has been used as poster of the exhibition.