ResDance Episode 11: The intersections between practice and philosophy

Dr Erin Manning offers rich insights into her experiences as a theorist, philosopher and practicing artist. Erin explores ideas around the role of experience and how we value and situate the body in society and wider practice. We also discuss theoretical ideas concerned with the relation between sensation and thought in movement and the merging of research, teaching and creation in her practice. Throughout the episode, Erin offers honest insights into her journey thus far and her current research interests in the transversality of the three ecologies, the social, the environmental and the conceptual.

Dr Erin Manning is a professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). She is also the founder of SenseLab (www.senselab.ca), a laboratory that explores the intersections between art practice and philosophy through the matrix of the sensing body in movement. Erin studies in the interstices of philosophy, aesthetics and politics, concerned, always, about alter-pedagogical and alter-economic practices. 3e is the direction her current research takes - an exploration of the transversality of the three ecologies, the social, the environmental and the conceptual. An iteration of 3e is a land-based project north of Montreal where living and learning is explored. Legacies of SenseLab infuse the project, particularly the question of how collectivity is crafted in a more-than human encounter with worlds in the making.

Contact details:

Email: [email protected]

Websites:

http://www.senselab.ca

http://www.erinmovement.com

http://www.inflexions.org

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