Strange Intruders (20 minutes, 2026), featuring the voices of heat snacking on pine seeds, a medley of birds in protracted response and call, senses, stutters and relational thought growing through process philosophers Erin Manning and Brian Massumi, twitches of bark, the sun’s dial, quivers of winds, and phonic pulls from Sher Doruff. Feeling the interstices of perception, the film crafts a rhythmic ecology of nonseparable sensing, where thought feels, sight touches, cadence potentiates.
Erin Manning works in the interstices of philosophy, aesthetics and politics, with a longstanding concern for alter-pedagogical and alter-economic practices. Her books include The Minor Gesture (2016), For a Pragmatics of the Useless (2020), Out of the Clear (2022), Unsettled (2026), and Earth Unlimited – Understories (2027). Her current artistic research unfolds through 3E, an exploration of the transversality of the three ecologies: the social, the environmental and the conceptual. An iteration of 3E is the 3Ecologies Project, a land-based experiment north of Montreal where living and learning are explored together. Legacies of SenseLab infuse the project, particularly the question of how collectivity is crafted through more-than human encounters with worlds in the making.
Brian Massumi is the author of numerous works across philosophy, political theory, and art theory, including the foundational Parables for the Virtual (2002). With Erin Manning and the 3Ecologies Project, he participates in the collective exploration of new ways of bringing philosophical and artistic practices into collaborative interaction.
Sher Doruff works and teaches in the material, sonic and performance arts. For the past twenty-five years her work has been situated in the expanded field of artistic research practice as an artist, writer, mentor, and supervisor. Her research practice explores fabulative approaches to writing and composition. She is Emeritus Professor of Film and Media at the Research Centre of Stockholm University of the Arts, was head of pre-PhD research programs at DAS Graduate School (AHK) and Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Her novella Last Year at Betty and Bob’s An Actual Occasion (2021) completes the Betty and Bob trilogy, published by Ecologies/Punctum Books. In recent years she began dabbling again in music-making for the fun of it. (https://soundcloud.com/sherdoruff)
ro heinrich is learning with relational fieldings transversing spoken and unspoken languaging. Through (recorded) conversations and collaborations, their practice grows where practice orients, and with an emphasis on film- and bookmaking. Her work stages the refusal to separate the (always already more-than) human and nonhuman, world and body. Attentive to mobilising collective conversation, they collaboratively craft public screening and reading events, attuning with questions posed through their works. Ro recently began a Research Creation PhD, with the Humanities programme at Concordia University, Montreal, with Erin Manning, Sher Doruff and Shira Avni as (co-)supervisors.
