David Zerbib is a lecturer in Philosophy of Art at HEAD – Haute Ecole d’Art de Design de Genève and coordinator of the Research Unit at the École Supérieure d’Art d’Annecy Alpes (ESAAA), where he helped create the DSRA (Diplôme Supérieur de Recherche en Art) and coordinates the project “Re/generative performance, somapolitics of the common”.
Associated with the Centre de Philosophie contemporaine de la Sorbonne (PhiCo/CEPA: Culture Esthétique et Philosophie de l’Art) at the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, his research focuses on the principles of a contemporary aesthetic theory.
His work focuses in particular on the question of performance and performativity, and proposes strategies for renewing the question of form based on the notion of “format”.
He is also a member of AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art) and of the reading committee of the journal Critique d’Art. Actualité internationale de la littérature critique sur l’art contemporain.
He co-edited Performance Studies in Motion, International perspectives and practices (London, Bloomsbury Editions, 2014), and edited In octavo. Des formats de l’art (Presses du réel /ESAAA, 2015).