Produced in an auditorium of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de la Villa Arson, Aesthetics of Survival is composed of four individual performances taking place simultaneously. This piece raises the question of art and teaching it, art and learning it. Robin de Courcy recites the weather forecast. David Carmine takes sleeping pills and falls asleep snoring. Carole Lothiois reads an excerpt of a Stevenson text. Meanwhile, Caroline Bouissou intervenes from time to time, tossing out verbal interjections to certain individuals in the audience, commentaries on art and learning it. They are actually all the interjections and remarks, sometimes peremptory, that professors have addressed to their students and which she has patiently collected during her years of study at the Villa Arson.