The interdisciplinary research team is led by Samuel Bordreuil, Director of Research Emeritus at LAMES (AMU-CNRS). He is joined by two visual artists: Katie Holten, Irish, living in New York, and Mariateresa Sartori, living and working in Venice. They are joined by two media experts from the San Francisco Exploratorium, a pioneering museum and public learning laboratory: Susan Schwartzenberg, Director of the "Bay observatory" which is at the heart of the Exploratorium; as well as Bryan Connell, artist and project/exhibit developer at the Exploratorium.

Karst: what is it? It’s an enigmatic landscape formed from soluble rock such as limestone. The town of Cassis grows out of this charismatic layer of geology characterised by its flat "table-like" surfaces which are porous to water which seeps through the rock, forming sinkholes and subterranean rivers, caves, and tunnels. It’s a physically, geologically and metaphorically rich landscape. The myth of Ariadne’s thread leading a path through the labyrinth is a Karstic idea.
Karstic Crossings is a research residency and an Art / Science experiment delving deep into the crevices of this thing called Karst. We’ve found that talking about it can lead you anywhere – to the moon or Mars (as paleogeologist Jacques Collina-Girard showed us). You can enter Karst from different disciplines: geology, anthropology, paleogeology, paleoarchaeology, scuba diving, caving...

The team was in residence at Camargo in 2016, in partnership with the LabexMed (Aix-Marseille University Partnership Program).