Erin Tandy is a spiritual ecologist, writer and sacred activist who advocates for systems change. She has a research background in climate displacement and has worked developing programs and growing thriving networks, primarily with asylum seeker and refugee communities. She is passionate about sustainability and the circular economy, and she currently runs a business with her partner in vintage fashion called HMS Vintage.

Erin has a Bachelor in International and Global Studies and a Master’s in Development Studies (Refugees and Forced Migration).Erin Manning is a professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). She is also the founder of SenseLab (www.senselab.ca), a laboratory that explores the intersections between art practice and philosophy through the matrix of the sensing body in movement. Current art projects are focused around the concept of minor gestures in relation to colour and movement. Art exhibitions include the Sydney and Moscow Biennales, Glasshouse (New York), Vancouver Art Museum, McCord Museum (Montreal) and House of World Cultures (Berlin) and Galateca Gallery (Bucarest). Publications include For a Pragmatics of the Useless (Duke UP, forthcoming), The Minor Gesture (Duke UP, 2016), Always More Than One: Individuation’s Dance (Duke UP, 2013), Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009) and, with Brian Massumi, Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience (Minnesota UP, 2014)