Host: artist Anna Püschel, our guest in the Syllabus Reading Residency in October 2023
For this edition of the Syllabus Reading Group, artist Anna Püschel collects excerpts from Erin Manning’s The Minor Gesture (2016), which we read together. Canadian Erin Manning is an artist, dancer and research-creation practitioner in addition to being a professor of philosophy at Concordia University. In The Minor Gesture, Manning explores alternative ways of moving and being moved by the world, different ways of experiencing the world and what role the small gesture can play in agency and political action.
Anna Püschel is a German-French visual artist with a practice combining image, word and performance. She is currently researching access needs of neuro-divergent women in the art world and is working on an Encyclopaedia of Doubt, to be published by The Eriskay Connection in the autumn.
Anna Püschel chose this book because her ongoing artistic research into stimming — auto-regulatory movements of neurodivergent people — addresses similar issues: how do we interact with our environment through our bodies, and even co-determine it through our physical presence? What (un)conscious movements anchor our consciousness in the world, and what happens when we give our body all the space it needs?
