Manning is a member of Kettle and Stoney Point First Nation and an interdisciplinary artist and scholar. She is a Queen’s National Scholar in Anishinaabe Language, Knowledge and Culture (ALKC), and Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. By tracing the fragile undulating threads of Anishinaabe ontologies found in everyday practices, she seeks to better understand the ways that Anishinaabe knowledge emerges in contemporary contexts. Using including immersive storytelling and community-engaged research creation, she brings these ways of knowing into rigorous debate with contemporary discourses in contemporary art and critical theory. This research takes up what Manning terms Mnidoo-Worlding, along with Anishinaabe philosophies and cultural practices related to imaging, dreams, and visions. Manning has exhibited as an interdisciplinary artist across Canada. Most recently, she led an Indigenous artist gathering and co-curated Mmaandaawaabi (see a wondrous sight) at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre as part of her SSHRC Funded Land-Based Worlding with Augmented Reality. As Principal Investigator of Earthdiver: Land Based Digital Worlding (MITACS) she led a series of co-created virtual reality and projection installations titled Emerging from the Water, Gathering, and Resonance, which have exhibited at Nuit Blanche, ImagineNATIVE, Onsite Gallery and the United Nations Conference on Water. She leads the Anishinaabe components of the SSHRC funded projected Pluriveral Worlding with Extended Reality. Manning co-Directs the Peripheral Visions CoLab, which specializes in collaborative research creation at the intersection of critical theory, Anishinaabe knowledges, and media arts worldmaking.
Peripheral Visions Co-Lab 