In dialogue with Gilles Clément‘s concept of the Third Landscape, and as part of the Les tiers images research program, she proposes to identify the gaps—physical, digital, symbolic, and legal—which, because they escape the logic of control, become fertile territories for experimentation and creative resistance.

Through the diversity of the participants brought together—landscape architects, lawyers, artists, researchers, activists, and students—combining ecology, law, care, cybernetics, and social struggles, the aim is to map out these “active third parties” together in order to transform the powerlessness felt into real influence over what is happening.

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• THURSDAY, MARCH 5 | Performances and evening event

Starting at 6 p.m., students from the ENSP’s Image Prospectives laboratory will present a series of performances at the School.

→ KARNAJVAL
Screening and exhibition in the ENSP wasteland
by Oscar Vilbert and Anatole Dentin

→ WHERE IS THE HOME OF MY SPIRIT?
Performance in the ENSP wasteland
by Teeradon Thongsaard, Isis Garrus, Fédéri Laurens and Morgane Ubaldi

→ DID YOU NOTICE IT?
Screening in the ENSP gallery
by Eva Sustar and Julia Gounon

→ I CHOSE TO BE BLIND
Screening in the ENSP auditorium
by Alessandro Galli

→ NEJ
Sound installation in the ENSP lobby
by Luka Perkins-Petit and Maria-Teresa Neira Barres

• FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2026 | Study Day

→ 9:30 a.m. | Introduction by Caroline Bernard
In a world that seems to be closing in on itself, where can we find spaces from which to act? How can we identify and cultivate the gaps that give us back control over what is happening? As part of the Les tiers images research program, Caroline revisits the hypothesis of active third parties—those spaces of leverage which, like Clément’s wastelands, escape control systems and become territories of possible action, both for artists and citizens.

Caroline Bernard is an artist, teacher, and researcher at the ENSP.
Following extensive fieldwork, she creates hybrid forms combining performing arts, documentary, and radio. She collaborates with theaters and radio stations in Switzerland and France.

→ 9:45 a.m. | ART, CARE, CITIZENSHIP: FROM THE ETHICS OF CARE TO ACTIVE SPACES
Conference by Jasmine Lebert
Under what conditions does a space become active? How can we design an active space based on vulnerabilities, reversing the dominant norms within society?

Jasmine Lebert runs 3 Bis F, a contemporary art center and residency space at the Montperrin Psychiatric Hospital in Aix-en-Provence.

→ 10:30 a.m. | BACKROOMS, NO-CLIPPING OUT OF CAPITALISM
Performance lecture by Hugo Jacq, student at ENSP

→ 10:40 a.m. | ROIS D’ASILE (KINGS OF ASYLUM)
Presentation of the film Rois d’asile and screening throughout the day
by Clément Caignart, doctoral student at ENSP, and Hélène Deléan
Between February and March 2021, students from Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis University took part in an experiment combining documentary and fiction. When a protest breaks out and leads to the occupation of the university, Nil is torn between rebellion and conformity. Rois d’asile, co-written and improvised with student actors, explores the future of education and the possible appropriation of educational tools, expressing their doubts about the future.

→ 11:00 a.m. | THE CONCEPT OF THIRD PARTIES ACTING THROUGH THE PRISM OF DEVIANT ECOLOGIES
Conference by Cy Lecerf Maulpoix
Based on investigative work, this presentation proposes to explore the concept of third parties acting in relation to various forms of resistance characteristic of deviant ecologies, from eco-socialist resistance at the end of the 19th century to contemporary techno-critical activism.

Cy Lecerf Maulpox is an author, translator, and teacher at the Beaux-Arts in Marseille. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in historical anthropology at EHESS.

→ 11:45 a.m. | ART WORK
Conference by Alice Delanghe
An activist for a law ensuring continuity of income for artists and authors, Alice will propose appropriating the content of the famous red booklet and understanding in detail how artists (struggle to) make a living from their work today. The program includes a collective review of the proposed law so that everyone can take up the defense of their rights as workers.

Alice Delanghe is a photographer and author, involved in several activist collectives such as Travailleur·euses de l’art 13, and a member of the STAA CNT-SO union.

→ 12:15 p.m. | THE EARTH GIVES, THE EARTH WANTS
Performance reading in the courtyard by Nastasia Darmon and Zacharie Madane, students at ENSP

→ 12:30 p.m. | LUNCH BREAK

→ 2 p.m. | SPACES OF FREEDOM
Conference by Gilles Clément
When it comes to “non-human life,” spaces of freedom are areas that allow certain species—animal or plant—to settle there simply out of biological opportunism, provided that human activities do not prevent them from doing so. For gardeners who accept the diversity of species that have arrived on their own, intervention takes the form of light gardening by simple subtraction: nothing is planted, nothing is eradicated, and an aesthetic solution is sought to make the garden accessible to all.

Gilles Clément is a landscape architect, botanist, and writer. Known for his innovative approaches to ecological gardening, he is the author of the Third Landscape Manifesto, which defends forgotten and spontaneous spaces as essential refuges for biodiversity.

→ 2:45 p.m.
Weary Landscapes
Contribution by Eva Sustar, student at the ENSP

REFORESTED LAND
Contribution by Oscar Vilbert, student at ENSP

BEING WOVEN. TRANSMISSION AS A THIRD PARTY ACTING
Performed reading by Susanna de Vido and Aida Lechugo, students at ENSP

→ 3:15 p.m. | THINGS SEIZED BY PROPERTY: FROM OBJECTS TO ENVIRONMENTS
Conference by Sarah Vanuxem
This presentation will first examine the extent to which things that are considered appropriate, particularly land, can be regarded as “active third parties”. We will then go on to study how municipal sections, nature rights, and endowment funds can be regarded as legal means of preserving “third landscapes”. Finally, we will present some “third images” by Geoffroy Matthieu, along with an article entitled “Les vagabonds, entre humains, chiens et loups “Vagabonds, between humans, dogs, and wolves”, from the collection of texts Du droit de déambuler The Right to Wander.

Sarah Vanuxem is a senior lecturer in law (authorized to supervise research) at the Université Côte d’Azur, on secondment to the Agence Française de Développement, and a resident at the Villa Medici for the year 2022-2023.

→ 4 p.m. | THE GIRL, THE DOLPHIN, AND THE MACHINE: DECOYS AND INVOCATIONS FOR AN ENVIRONMENT – CYBERNETIC ALIENATION
Conference by Éloïse Vo
Revisiting the experience of American neuroscientist John Lilly at Dolphin House, this presentation proposes to revisit the alien figurations that have inhabited this laboratory as much as the history of cybernetics and artificial intelligence. The young girl, the dolphin, and the machine are invoked through the prism of a proxy policy, to revive the potential of a negative ecology that makes room for alienation and incommunicability.

Eloïse Vo is an artist, doctoral student at HEAD – Geneva (Hes-So) and EPF, and resident researcher at Wonder, Bobigny.

→ 4,30pm › 5pm | DISCUSSION WITH THE AUDIENCE