Erin Manning

Erin Manning is a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). She is also the founder ofSenseLab, a laboratory that explores the intersections between artistic practice and philosophy through the matrix of the moving sensory body. Her current art projects focus on the concept of minor gestures in relation to color and movement.

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Among his publications areFor a Pragmatics of the Useless (Duke UP, forthcoming),The Minor Gesture (Duke UP, 2016),Always More Than One: Individuation's Dance (Duke UP, 2013),Relationshipscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009) and, with Brian Massumi,Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience (Minnesota UP, 2014).

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Emma Bigé and Mathilde Papin are familiar with Erin Manning, her theoretical and artistic work. They translated his book into FrenchAlways more than One, whose theses have a central place in our project. Erin Manning initiated many research-creation events at the SenseLab in Montreal, until 2019, and continues this process in a private place in Vermont.