This publication reports on artist Yanik Potvin's research into the practice of ceramics. During a residency at Chicoutimi's Centre Bang, Potvin performed clay with other artists, amalgamating the event with the practice of the object. Following on from this project, and based on Yanik's practice, an archaeologist and a writer each take a historical and anthropological, as well as artistic and philosophical, look at this decompartmentalized discipline. The artist also offers his research writings on the context of production and the process of transformation of clay as a human as well as an artistic production. He expresses the desire to create "[...] new contours that will lay the groundwork for a creative anthropology".

Excerpt from Paul Kawczak's text:

Visiting Yanik Potvin in residence at Chicoutimi's Centre Bang in the summer of 2021, I saw him open a clay cow and pull out its innards. The two rooms in which he worked had no windows. He was working in a cave. The white-cube like a cave. He represented in clay the intestines of a cow, a relative of the bison gutted and furious at man, agonizing in the well scene. The cow was placid, as if complicit in death, but its entrails arrested the human gaze as they did thousands of years ago.