Breathing /sites
video ~ text ~ photos ~ score
Participatory performance of fluctuating duration
Culture’s ‘airborne’ transmitted codes insist in censoring the body, and in inscribing its desirable patterns. Although their technologies work on the plasticisation of the human, through several modes of reproduction, the phenomenon of breathing also prompts embodied flows of resistance. It emanates vibrating intensities of a forever evolving form of intimacy, a resonance that when listened to agitates the stagnation of binary boundaries.
Breathing /sites is an invitation to attune with the softening waves of breath. Its score generates a sonic moment based on a situational exchange between bodies in space. The participants are invited to activate the space and embody an act of generosity by breathing to prescribed patterns — a pneumatic continuum where the boundaries between leisure and labor are blurred. In exchange, the breath composition arouses the improvised utterances of Angelo Custódio and Yara Said. From this interplay emerges a liminal moment in which bodies encounter an affective interchange among strangers.
Credits
Concept: Angelo Custódio
Voice: Yara Said and Angelo Custódio
Photos: Müge Yilma
Research supported by Mondriaan Fonds
Presentation supported by Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst
Four Siblings, Amsterdam NL
(2021)
