Tristan Garcia was born in 1981. He grew up in Algeria, then in Chartres. He has taught philosophy at the University of Lyon-III and published works on metaphysics, such as Forme et Objet (PUF) and Laisser être et rendre puissant (PUF), as well as essays on animal sentience (Nous animaux et humains, F. Bourrin), the political imaginary of ‘us’ (Nous, Grasset), television series (Six Feet Under. Nos vies sans destin, PUF) and ‘electric life’ (La Vie intense, Autrement). Curious about many fields of cultural study, popular culture and systems of domination, he has brought together a number of scattered texts in Kaléidoscope (Léo Scheer). Interested in alternative practices and lives, he has taken part in collective experiments, in places of communality, against authoritarian forms of organisation of space and time, while at the same time questioning the blind spots and illusions of these experiments, particularly through his narratives. He has published several novels with Gallimard: La meilleure part des hommes, Mémoire de la jungle, 7, and a ‘Histoire de la souffrance’, the first two volumes of which, Âmes and Vie contre vie, have just been published.

Laura Karp Lugo has a doctorate in art history from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has been a lecturer at the Université de Lorraine since 2020, and has worked as a researcher at various institutions including the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (Paris), the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Buenos Aires), the German Centre for the History of Art (Paris), and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich).

Conducted as part of the ERC project 'Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile' (METROMOD), from 2017 to 2023, her research contributes to a global and connected history of art from a Latin American perspective at the intersection of artistic creation and exile. In addition to numerous articles published in France and abroad, she is the co-editor of two books that take a resolutely global approach to these issues: Arrival Cities. Migrating Artists and New Metropolitan Topographies in the 20th Century (Leuven University Press, 2020) and Urban Exile: Theories, Methods, Research Practices (London, Intellect, 2023).

Winner of the Prix du Musée d'Orsay, her thesis will be published in 2024 by Éditions de la Sorbonne.

Alexis

Bertrand

Speaker at the EN-tour diploma seminar

Born in 1979, Alexis Bertrand is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris. He has been designing scenography for exhibitions, shows and artworks since 2005. He has worked with institutions including ZKM (Karlsruhe), École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and Lafayette Anticipation (Paris), as well as with artists such as Camille Henrot and Évariste Richer.

He also works regularly with Xavier Veilhan on projects for works, exhibitions and shows. They co-signed Vårbergs Jättar (The Giants of Vårberg), a work commissioned by the City of Stockholm, and recently the show Tout l'univers, premiered in November 2023 at the Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes.

Jean-Baptiste

de Beauvais

Philosophy

Jean-Baptiste de Beauvais is a doctor of philosophy. He has been director of studies at the Beaux-Arts de Paris since 2019. He was director of external relations at the Palais de Tokyo where he worked from 2005 to 2007 and then from 2011 to 2019.

He has collaborated on numerous artistic projects including several editions of Nuit Blanche and Monumenta at the Grand Palais (Anselm Kiefer, Richard Serra, Anish Kapoor) as well as various exhibitions. He published See God, an essay on the visible and Christianity and worked, among other things, on the concept of the indeterminate in Hegel and the concept of evidence in Pascal.

Elie

During

Science

Elie During is a former student of the ENS, agrégé in philosophy, and lecturer in philosophy at the University of Paris Nanterre. His research focuses on contemporary figures of simultaneity at the intersection of science, art and metaphysics.

Among his publications: False connections: the coexistence of images (Actes Sud, 2010), The Future does not exist (B42, 2014), several volumes of the critical edition of Bergson's works at the Presses Universitaires de France (Duration and Simultaneity : about Einstein's theory, 2009; The Memory of the present and false recognition, 2012), as well as co-edited books or journal issues, devoted to cinema, contemporary art or current research in metaphysics: Cinéphilosophie (Revue Critique, 2005), In actu: experimental art (Presses du réel, 2009), What is contemporary art thinking? (Revue Critique, 2010), Things in themselves: metaphysics of realism (PUF, 2018).

Photo credit: © Moritz Wehrmann

Clélia

Zernik

Art philosophy

A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure with an agrégation and a doctorate in aesthetics, Clélia Zernik is a professor of philosophy of art at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Her early research focused on the relationship between art and science, as developed by art psychologists and phenomenologists (cf. Perception-cinéma, Vrin, Paris, 2012; L'œil et l'objectif, Vrin, 2014). Her research is now focused on cinema (Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, Yellow Now, Paris, 2013, L'attrait du café, Yellow Now, Paris, 2017, L'attrait du fantôme, Yellow Now, Paris, 2019) and contemporary Japanese art, thanks to study periods at Waseda University and Tokyo University. She works on the question of the doubling of images (Japanese surfaces and depths) and regularly contributes to journals such as Critique d'art and Art Press.

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Clara

Schulmann

Film studies

Clara Schulmann has a doctorate in film studies and, in addition to teaching at art schools, she also writes criticism. She coordinates publishing projects such as Jeux sérieux. Cinéma et art contemporain transforment l'essai (HEAD/Mamco, 2015), Palmanova (Form(e)s, 2016), Laura Mulvey, Au-delà du plaisir visuel. Feminism, enigmas, cinephilia (Mimesis, 2017). Her thesis was published by Presses du réel (Les Chercheurs d'or. Films d'artistes, Histoires de l'art, 2014).

Her latest publication is Zizanies (Paraguay Press, 2020) - a first-person narrative dedicated to women's voices.

Photo: Pauline Seckel

Yann

Rocher

Scenography and Architecture

An architect who is also a graduate of the CNSMDP and the EHESS, Yann Rocher devoted himself to the construction of stage venues between 1998 and 2008. From 2002 to 2011, he directed the Théâtre électronique collective and created a series of sound installations in France and abroad.

He has been teaching at Paris-Malaquais since 2005, and since 2019 has been co-directing "L'entour", a seminar on exhibition scenography, with Thierry Leviez. In 2012 he was appointed curator of the Saline Royale d'Arc-et-Senans, culminating in the 2013 exhibition Théâtres en utopie.

From 2015 to 2018 he curated the Globes exhibition at the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine. His latest exhibition, Moi cristal, was held at the Centre d'art contemporain de Lacoux in summer 2022.

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Patricia

Ribault

Art and design philosophy

Patricia Ribault is Professor of Performative Design Research at the weißensee kunsthochschule Berlin and Principal Investigator of the "Matters of Activity" Cluster of Excellence at Berlin's Humboldt University. She began her career by studying applied arts and ceramics in Paris and apprenticing as a glassblower in England, Murano and Tunisia.

She co-edited Essais de Bricologie with Thomas Golsenne (EHESS, 2015) and edited a book entitled Design, Gestaltung, Formatività. Philosophies of Making (Birkhäuser, 2022). His research focuses on the body, gesture, work, technology, art and design, as well as interspecificity and post-humanism.

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After studying History, Anthropology and Sociology (EHESS) with Jean-Louis Fabiani and Clarisse Herrenschmidt, Sophie Marino completed a doctorate in Information and Communication Sciences under the supervision of Daniel Jacobi. She also completed a 3rd cycle in European studies at Sciences Po Paris.

She taught at the University of Avignon as a lecturer and then as a temporary teaching and research associate, was head of research at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art d'Avignon and has also worked as a museographer. Sophie Marino also teaches in the Cycle pluridisciplinaire d'Études Supérieures at Paris Sciences Lettres University.

Her research focuses on the recomposition and transmission of knowledge. Her fields of reflection include museum enunciation and exhibition narratives, and the relationship between art and ethnographic discourse.