Lecture by Léo Mariani, food anthropologist, researcher at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle
As part of Treize’Estival, festival of cultural venues in the 13th arrondissement.
In the exhibition “Primordial Soup”, things, materials and foods (soup, infusion and kombucha) are held in a level of indeterminacy that demands the audience’s attention. Tiphaine Calmettes thus questions the energizing power of uncertainty and, through it, the turmoil that underlies the relationship of hospitality, between a challenge and a proposal to share. Léo Mariani will discuss this equivocation, its avatars and implications, in relation to his past researches (on generosity and giving) and present researches (on the relationship with the living in the wine industry).
Léo Mariani
Léo Mariani is an anthropologist, teacher at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle and at the University of Liège, and a research associate at the UMR Eco-anthropologie (MNHN, CNRS, Université Paris Cité). He is interested in the future of certain plant foods in France and Asia, using an ontogenetic approach that questions the production of worlds in space and time. His work combines the anthropology of knowledge and nature. He is the author of several articles and books. The latest of these is entitled Le Goût des possibles. Enquêtes sur les ressorts symbolistes d’une crise écologique (Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2022).
In partnership with la Mairie du 13e arrondissement.
