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 with Fernanda Fragateiro, Arthur Larrue and Marta Jecu 12. Pierres Sans Répit /Unrelenting Stones: A Lithic Exploration in Clichy-sous-Bois / Montfermeil A C onversation with Luise 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.