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<p>The Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series, with the support of the Alfred Deakin Research Institute, the Centre for Citizenship and Globalization and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, is proud to present:</p>
<h3>Erin Manning, “Artfulness”</h3>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong>: Through a development of the concepts of the art of time and the art of participation, this paper explores the relationship of intuition and sympathy in Bergson’s work to ask how a concept of artfulness might be conceived. Artfulness is here defined as the force of the event of art, a force that is more than human.</p>
<p><strong>Bio</strong>: Erin Manning holds a University Research Chair in Relational Art and Philosophy in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). She is also the director of the Sense Lab ( <a href="http://www.senselab.ca">http://www.senselab.ca</a> ), a laboratory that explores the intersections between art practice and philosophy through the matrix of the sensing body in movement. In her art practice she works between painting, dance, fabric and sculpture ( <a href="http://www.erinmovement.com">http://www.erinmovement.com </a>). Current iterations of her artwork explore emergent collectivities through participatory textiles. Her project Stitching Time will be presented at the 2012 Sydney Biennale and The Knots of Time will open the new Flax Museum in Kortrijk, Belgium in 2014. Her writing addresses movement, art, experience and the political through the prism of process philosophy, with recent work developing a notion of autistic perception and the more-than human. Publications include <em>Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy</em> (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009), <em>Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty</em> (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2007) and <em>Ephemeral Territories: Representing Nation, Home and Identity in Canada</em> (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2003). Her forthcoming manuscript, <em>Always More Than One: Individuation’s Dance</em> will be published by Duke University Press in 2012 as will her forthcoming co-written manuscript (with Brian Massumi), <em>Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience</em> (Minnesota UP).</p>
<p>Where: Deakin University, Burwood Campus, room C2.05. A map of the campus can be found here: <a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/campuses/InteractiveMapBurwood.php">http://www.deakin.edu.au/campuses/InteractiveMapBurwood.php</a></p>
<p>When: Tuesday, August 7, 3.30-5.00pm</p>
<p>Videolink: The seminar will be linked to the following videoconference rooms: Geelong kc1.011 and Warrnambool A.3.41</p>
<p>All welcome.</p>
<p>Please also note that Erin Manning is participating in Entertaining the environment, at Phoenix Gallery, Deakin University Burwood campus 6th-17th of August (opening 5pm Thursday 9th). This exhibition, featuring artists Kent Wilson, Erin Manning, Riki-Metisse Marlow, Laura Woodward & Andrew Goodman, asks artists to respond to Erin Manning’s proposition that an art event might work to place us immediately in a relational framework rather than investing in the hierarchy of subject and object, and explores strategies for the misuse of technologies in seeking to engage a wider range of environmental forces.</p>
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