List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Marta Jecu

PART 1: Through the Lens of Cultural History

1. Fossils and Totems as Fossils and Vice Versa
J. T. Mitchell

2. Materials Against Materiality
Tim Ingold

3. Alongside the Stones
Clara Poirier

4. For an Ontology of Stone
Paolo Nardon

5. A Stroll in the Collections of the Musée de Minéralogie Paris: Exploring the History of Humanity Through ’Stones’
Interview with the Musée Director Didier Nectoux

6. Exhibition

Part I: A Cultural Interpretation of Stone

Part II: A Cultural Interpretation of Stone

Part III: Stone Alive: A Cultural Interpretation of Stone

Part IV: PIERRES VIVANTES. Une interprétation culturelle des pierres

7. Artistic Portfolios Part 1

I. David Casini

II. Gabriel Leger

III. Raphael Denis

IV. Jorge Santos

V. Cyprien Rials

VI. Martinho Mendes

PART 2: Built Matter

8. Fractured Stone and the Rhetoric of the Rustic
Jonathan Foote

9. Written in Stone: Geological Eco-Fictions from the Fields of Architecture
Pedro Gadanho

10. Talking to Stones in Prison and in a Prison Museum: “All the Earth in Every Grain of Mine”
Özge Kelekçi and Meral Akbas

11. Stone Books
A Conversation withFernanda Fragateiro, Arthur Larrue and Marta Jecu

12. Pierres Sans Répit/Unrelenting Stones: A Lithic Exploration in Clichy-sous-Bois / Montfermeil
A Conversation withLuise Schröder, Chedly Atallah and Marta Jecu

13. On Stones, Architecture, Nature and Love
Gonçalo M. Tavares

14. Artistic Portfolios Part 2

I. Fernanda Fragateiro

II. Rita Gaspar Vieira

III. Pedro Sequeira

IV. Claire de Santa Coloma

PART 3: Non-Human Life and Temporalities

15. Deep Life
Giovanbattista Tusa

16. Renewed Perspectives on the Material Nature of Museums, Starting from Stone and Brazil’s Native Peoples
Roberta Fagundes Gonçalves 

17. From the Ground 
Patricia Domingues

18.
Manuel Perreira

19. To Lick a Stone or About Poetic Intentions
Patricia Morosan

20. Dance and Performance as Forms of Listening to the Stones
Arantxa Ciafrino

21. Seeking Silence and Ancient Stones: A Conversation with Sérgio Carronha
Mattia Tosti

22. Artistic Portfolios Part 3

I. Gilles Zark

II. Sergio Carronha

III. Stephane Raynal

IV. Marta Alvim

V. Rosell Meseguer

VI. Patricia Morosan

PART 4: Future Stone

23. Becoming Stone: Posthumanism in Ben River’s Look Then Below
Matilda Holloway

24. Block-chain : Some Reflections on Life in the Work of Vincent Voillat
Jean-Christophe Arcos

25. Of curved Rocks and a Crack
Vincent Voillat

26. In Between Two Renaissance Paintings
Q&A with Luca Pozzi

27. Petrified Traumas: Marina Abramovic, Massimiliano Pelletti and J.G. Ballard’s The Crystal World
Laura Colombino

28. Exhibition Parts III and IV 

29. Artistic Portfolios Part 4

I. Ludovic Sauvage

II. Vincent Pajot

III. Vincent Voillat