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Breathing is an unavoidable, vital act, yet it cannot be taken for granted, as the experiences of the pandemic, profound changes in our environment, but also structural, racist discrimination make clear. In the physical act of breathing, we are symbolically, materially and radically thrown back to our own bodies and connected to the bodies of others.
In conversation with artists and theorists from different fields, the contributers to this volume explore different acts of suffocation and release. They show how the protection of bodies is unequally and ambivalently distributed and how it can be an act of resistance. It is an insistence on life, a demand for existential, political, symbolic and ethical recognition.
Sandra Noeth is a professor at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin and an international curator. Her work focuses on ethical and political perspectives in body-based artistic practice and theory.
Janez Jansa is a professor at Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin and a contemporary artist focusing on the relation between art and the social and political context.
Frontmatter 1
Content 4
BREATHE—An Introductory Dialogue 6
Dance and Air: About the Space between Us 16
Abécédaire of Breathing 34
Freedom of Breath 54
Being in the Negative 84
The Archive of Stolen Breaths 94
Meditations on Amphibiousness 112
Breathing Space—Germinations of Decolonial Allyship 126
Contributors 144
Imprint 150