Andrási Attila

PhD Research

Exploring Minor Gestures as a Mode of Appearance in Neurodivergent-Informed Performance Practice

A practice-based PhD at the University of the Arts London. Rather than presenting the minor gesture as a fixed idea, this research develops it through studio investigation — currently through Breeze, an ongoing inquiry into how attention emerges through subtle relations between the body, material objects, and environmental forces.

Current Investigation

Current · PARL Residency, Ljubljana

Worked through electric fans, fabric, and states of stillness — Breeze is the live studio ground for this thesis, feeding directly into the theoretical contexts below.

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Theoretical Context

Reading the Minor Gesture

This research does not treat the minor gesture as a fixed idea but as something that becomes investigable through a specific field of thought. The six contexts below are the ground the current studio work — Breeze, and the investigations that will follow it — grows from.

Working thesis: the minor gesture is approached as an emergent corporeal tendency rather than a predetermined movement form — a way of appearing that resists spectacle while remaining fully present.

Six contexts

Focus: minor gesture, minor dance, minor literature, and the politics of movement.

Burrows, J., & Domm, D. P. (2021). Towards a minor dance. In D. P. Domm (Ed.), The Minor Gesture in Performance: Choreography, Dance and the Politics of Movement. Routledge.
Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1986). Kafka: Toward a minor literature (D. Polan, Trans.). University of Minnesota Press.
O'Sullivan, S. (2006). Art and the political: Minor literature, the war machine and the production of subjectivity. In Art Encounters Deleuze and Guattari: Thought Beyond Representation (pp. 69–97). Palgrave Macmillan.
Manning, E. (2016). The minor gesture. Duke University Press.

Also emerging

StimmingDisordering dance: neuroqueering a choreographic practice

🧱 Expanded bibliography by field

The full reading list behind the six contexts above, grouped by field.

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