Artists coming from various places and using different media are given a residence period at Les Subsistances according to the project at hand, the financial support needed, the space needed and the administrative and technical support they receive. Les Subsistances constitute a work and production tool by listening to the artists’ needs and offering them various ways of exploring, through their own thinking, various issues in today’s world (male / female relationships, memory and objects, representations of crime and cruelty, on-stage poetry).