Cyrille Bret, art historian, Sophie Houdart, anthropologist, Lotte Arndt and Elvia Teotski

The discussion will focus on the living in contemporary art, the agency of materials, contaminated diversity in a damaged world, "tiny worlds" populated by "more-than-human" lives: a feral ecology, an environment in disrepair, evolving spontaneously while retaining traces of its past exploitation

-- Cyrille Bret is an art historian and professor at the Haute école des arts du Rhin. He has been working for several years on the relationships between contemporary art and the living, from a perspective that combines historical and anthropological approaches.

-- Sophie Houdart is an anthropologist and researcher at the CNRS, a member of the Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology. She specializes in Japan and is particularly interested in the modes of construction and local practices of modernity, as well as the theme of creation and innovation.