In 2016, Council participated in ephemeropteræ VI at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary with a talk by Sandra Terdjman, introduced by the following text.

As many of her peers, mainly male archaeologists, M learnt to divide and rationalize the world in categories. Some of her archeological findings contributed to museums’ collections, still organized in departments by periods, mediums, and regions. It was her encounter with ethnopsychiatry that made her reconsider this heritage. Her gaze shifted from object to people. M preferred exchange with people to fact-finding and object analysis. In research, she found meaning in processes of participatory and collaborative nature. She realized that those categories she was hired to sustain were no longer appropriate. She could not perpetuate such epistemological laziness, she thought. In this talk, Sandra Terdjman will present the work of M and speculate on how methodologies in social sciences inspire the building of contemporary art collections and their role in the production and dissemination of art.