Temporalities Clothing Temporalities: A workshop with Erin Manning and Spurse + Brian Massumi discussant

As part of the research project DEEPTIME RAPIDTIME we invite you to participate in a workshop to rethink clothing in relation to temporality. We will focus on the transversal linkages between topology and topography through the active shaping and sewing of fabric toward the creation of a clothing system that moves between the body and mobile architecture. This work will develop and continue the ideas developed by Erin Manning in the project: Folds to Infinity and the spurse research project on Clothing Temporalities at KCAI 2008.

This will be an exciting and challenging hands-on workshop moving back and forth be- tween readings, making, discussions and experimentations. Materials will be supplied.

Who should Attend: This workshop is intended to mix peoples across disciplines— clothing, architecture, philosophy, geology, geography, and art etc. Bring your skills and skill levels, plus a willingness to participate fully in what promises to be a very exceptional event.

Schedule:

Algorithmic dinner with Erin Manning, Brian Massumi and spurse, Saturday, February 21, 7-9pm (Dinner tickets: students $10, strategically underemployed $15, others $20)

Workshop (phase 1), Sunday, Feb. 22, 11am-5pm Workshop (phase 2), Monday, Feb. 23 and Tuesday, Feb.24, 1pm-5pm

Public presentation by the group, Tuesday, Feb.24 3-5pm (Workshop fees payable at time of registration: students $15; strategically underemployed $30; employed $75)

Space is limited for the dinner and workshop, and advanced registration is required. To sign up for the dinner and/or workshop, please e-mail Stacy Switzer, Artistic Director, Grand Arts at [email protected], or call 816.421.6887. BIOS Erin Manning holds a University Research Chair in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). She is also the director of the Sense Lab (www.senselab.ca), 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, fabric and sculpture (http://erinmanning. lunarpages.net). Her current project entitled Folds to Infinity is an experimental fabric collection com- posed of cuts that connect in an infinity of ways, folding in to create clothing and out to create envi- ronmental architectures. The next phase of this project will explore the resonance between electro- magnetic fields and movement through the activation of the existent magnets in Folds to Infinity. Her writing addresses the senses, philosophy and politics, articulating the relation between experience, thought and politics in a transdisciplinary framework moving between dance and new technology, the political and micropolitics of sensation, performance art, and the current convergence of cinema, ani- mation and new media. Publications include Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, forthcoming May 2009), Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty (Minne- apolis: Minnesota University Press, 2007) and Ephemeral Territories: Representing Nation, Home and Identity in Canada (Minnesota University Press, 2003).

Brian Massumi specializes in the philosophy of embodied experience, media theory, and political philosophy. His research is two-fold: the experience of movement and the interrelations between the senses, in particular in the context of new media art and technology; and emergent modes of power associated with the globalization of capitalism and the rise of preemptive politics. He is currently pre- paring two book projects. Architectures of the Unforeseen: Arts of Relation which addresses these is- sues through detailed analyses of the work of selected architects and artists (forthcoming MIT Press). Empire of Emotion studies affective politics, in the Bush administration and beyond. His earlier works include Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation ((Duke University Press, 2002), A User’s Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (MIT Press, 1992), and First and Last Emperors: The Absolute State and the Body of the Despot (with Kenneth Dean; Autono- media, 1993). He is editor of The Politics of Everyday Fear (University of Minnesota Press, 1993) and A Shock to Thought: Expression After Deleuze and Guattari (Routledge, 2002). He is a professor in the Communication Department of the Université de Montréal, where he directs the Workshop in Radical Empiricism (Atelier en empirisme radical). With Erin Manning of the SenseLab, Concordia University, he co-organizes a series of events and activities under the title “Technologies of Lived Abstraction” dedicated to the collective exploration of new ways of bringing philosophical and artistic practices into mutually beneficial interaction (lecture series, special intensive seminars, annual international research- creation workshop, and grouphub). Also with Erin Manning he has launched a new book series at MIT Press under the same name as the event series, and a web-based journal entitled Inflexions: A Journal for Research-Creation (www.inflexions.org). spurse is an open-ended group of individuals and organizations that work together as a type of experimental consultation service towards the development of new forms of engagement, practices and knowledges. spurse’s endeavors often take the form of a temporary research institute/laboratory or intervention, and have included temporary restaurants, microbiological laboratories for museums, housing and clothing systems for migration, musical performances, the recording and archiving of oral histories, and publishing in a variety of media. Recent projects include Crooked River in First and Third Persons, a 48-hour way-finding experiment as part of the Cleveland Ingenuity Festival, 2008; Eleven Listening Posts for an Entangled Agent: Denver, as part of Dialog: City, 2008; and Micromobilia: Ma- chines for the Intensive Research of Interior Bio-Geographies which is part of “Experimental Geogra- phy,” a traveling exhibition curated by Nato Thompson and circulated by Independent Curators Inter- national. For more information please see <>.