Art-research project, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and Modern Art Oxford, 2020-21.
Breathing Worlds used curation and collage to draw together research about breathing from different areas of knowledge. An academic counterpart to Breathworks, Breathing Worlds culminated in a large-scale display of research, a vitrine of artefacts and a panel event.
This project was supported by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and co-produced with Derek McCormack, Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Oxford (journal article forthcoming).
Our installation at Modern Art Oxford became a nebulous seven-by-three-metre configuration of printed materials: an assemblage of photographs, infographics, sketches, and painstakingly selected quotations. Eventually, through collaborative effort, the content was assorted into eight areas or ‘breathing worlds’, if you will. There was: ‘breathing experience’, ‘breathing health’, ‘breathing environment’, ‘breathing politics’, ‘breathing violence’, ‘breathing technology’, ‘breathing art’, and ‘breathing is…’.
– Lucy Sabin (2020).
