David Zerbib

Think.Zone, RDVs, Theoretical tutorship

David Zerbib is a philosopher and art critic. A lecturer in Philosophy of Art at HEAD, he also teaches in other academic contexts. A member of the Centre d'histoire des philosophies modernes at the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, his research focuses on contemporary aesthetics, in particular the questions of performance and performativity, as well as on the issue of formats. His publications include Performance Studies in Motion. International perspectives and practices in the twenty first century (with A. Citron and S. Aronson-Lehavi, Bloomsbury, London, 2014), edited In octavo. Des formats de l'art (Presses du réel - ESAAA, 2015). As part of research conducted at HEAD, together with artists Sylvie Boisseau and Frank Westermeyer he published Playing at being human. Between AI, animal and plant life: an artistic and philosophical experimentation (e-book, Naima éditions / HEAD, 2021). He is currently editing, with Jean-Paul Thibaud and Nicolas Tixier, Ambiances. A sensitivity to Ordinary Situations (Routledge, Series "Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces", to be published in 2024).