By Valentina Curandi
Workshop Round 2 – Foyer | Outside
Language: English
Abstract
This workshop explores breathing as a physiological engagement with writing. Through tracking breath with drawing, and translating movements of inspiration and expiration into writing, participants notice what passes through calligraphy, punctuation, and spacing. Exercises then focus on inhaling/taking in and exhaling/releasing in writing in relation to the environment and practicing writing strategies for familiarising with our breathing. Accompanied by feminist readings of how our breathing is affected and conditioned by the environment, we consider how breathing attunes with conditions, residues and expands writing.
What to expect:
The workshop guides participants in tracking their breathing as a possible grounding daily practice. Participants will sit and engage in line drawing and written-word descriptions. They will be provided with pens and paper, or may choose to intervene directly on their programme. Through a series of prompts, participants will be invited to notice how breathing might register in writing, and to reflect on how words and sentences can breathe within the space of the page.
About the maker:
Valentina works with performance, text, and cultural activities such as reading groups. She explores relationships between bodies and languages, attending to the difficulty of articulating experiences that are both embodied and discursive, like illness, mortality, and liminal states. She experiments with attentive, situated ways of holding sensation and speech together. In her PhD in Artistic Research, she examines how relations to death and dying shape artistic practice and its afterlife.