Publication · The MIT Press
Relationscapes
Movement, Art, Philosophy · Erin Manning
Of Force Fields and Rhythm Contours: David Spriggs’s Animate Sculptures
Erin Manning’s Relationscapes develops a philosophy of movement through relations among sensation, thought, art, and embodied experience. Its interlude on David Spriggs considers how his layered sculptures generate form through rhythm, force, and the movement of perception.
The discussion situates Spriggs’s work within a wider account of movement as an active process through which relations and forms emerge. The artwork is approached not as a fixed object but as an event continually composed between image, space, and the moving body.