DO WE KNOW WHAT A BODY CAN DO?

Abstract

In an interview, Canadian artist and philosopher Erin Manning situates the issue of the body in her research from an approach that privileges bodying from a post-humanistic and processual perspective. Situated in an ecology of relationships that gives its possibility, the body is thought in its relations with events and since the dance of attention that unfolds between them. What emerges from this is a relational and more-than-human forces-based analysis that results in a debate about the transindividual bodying which resonates in the way we think about neurodiversity and autistic perception, central themes in Erin's work. When debating about them, she also situates her ways of doing research, highlighting some of the movements in her work that lead her to a way of understanding and approaching research-creation and conceiving the research space itself as a creative environment attentive to its ecologies of existences.