With: Pierre Akrich, Claire Baldek, Tanguy Beurdeley, Anna Broujean, Clément Caignart, Sophie Chérot, Etienne Cliquet, Arthur Debert, Hélène Deléan, Deyi Studio, Chloé Elmaleh, Romaric Hardy, Pierre Larive, Li Siyi, Axel Roy.

Table theory here is a (single) table on which 23 propositions follow in sequence, the same number as the lunches served in a university restaurant during the time of the festival. This table, reserved for the offshore school (Shanghai) is by turns the base for an object, the support for an image, the stage for an installation, the stage for a performance, the time of a reading, a space for listening, the pretext for a discussion or again, simply, the occasion for a meal. This theory is also a protocol that brings simultaneously into play disappearance (the works do not always impose their status) and appearance (which always implies an interpretative community).

The Offshore School is an art research programme based in Shanghai, conceived and led by Paul Devautour for the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art et de Design in Nancy. The Offshore School brings together young artists from French art schools for a year of post-MA studies observing the cultural mutations linked to globalisation.