Nathalie Blanc (FR)

The researchers have a double function:
– give an intellectual and practical knowledge about circus-gesture-ecology and public space in each exploration time and the conclusion time;
– produce knowledge about transformed gestures from workers in circus public space within 2 scientific articles.

Nathalie Blanc is a Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and is the Managing Director of the Center for Earth Politics (https://u-paris.fr/centre-politiques-terre/) at the University of Paris Cité. As pionneer of ecocriticism in France, she has published and coordinated research programs on areas including habitability, environmental aesthetics, literature & environment and nature in the city. A founding member of the French Environmental Humanities Portal, she has also been from 2011 to 2015 the French delegate of the European COST research project Investigating cultural sustainability and then is the delegate of the European COST program on New Materialism ‘How Matter Comes to Matter’ (2015-2018).
Her books to come are : Towards an ordinary environmentalism (in French, éditions Au Bord de l’eau), Art and sustainable farming (in English, Routledge).
She is also an artist and an art commissionner, working on the theme of ecological fragility. She animates and coordinates a project of LABArtSciences devoted successively to urban soils of the Anthropocene SOIL FICTIONS (2016) and sustainable food THE TABLE AND THE TERRITORY that give rise to experiments in writing and exhibition.