This workshop explores a transnational conversation, exchange, improvisation and dance between NYC based (Mayfield Brooks) and New Zealand Berlin based artist (Alexa Wilson), based on research toward their creative collaboration called 'Breathless'.
We invite participants to engage in embodied practices that rupture 'the nation state', neoliberalism, capitalism, war, globalization while collectively breathing in Art/Activism/Land, Black Lives Matter & Feminist/Climate/Migration politics and intersectionality through processes involving and musing within skype sessions, tarot readings, sharing our own intimate spaces, stories, unstable wi-fi, State of the World/Temporality/Alternatives/Spaces of Refuge, studio practice, elections; TOGETHER because the world has become so globalized, disrupting our personal space while we are all so affected by the political morass. In the words of Eric Garner “I can’t breathe.”
Breath can be seen as like wind, with different winds breathing new life into old situations. It can be seen to break up the pollution of stagnant politics. We are all connected by air, which no one owns. What does it mean to be breath taken? Breathless. It is through breath that we can express this wreckage, and the spaces between life and death; that is transformation.
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