breathworks

breathworks

breathworks (2022) is part meditation, part video collage, and part self help app. It is a live desktop performance that walks you through the pain of forgetting your own birth. A calm and confident narrator welcomes you into the meditation, as a lush ambient soundscape creates a soft pillow for the viewer’s attention. She assures you that you the psychic pain of being alive is normal, and that we can sit in it together.

breathworks navigates through a series of browser windows – iPhone recordings of cloud formations, sunsets, rivers, oceans, lakes, and tree lines. These landscapes have been captured and digitized for your viewing pleasure, and are collaged together live creating a wash of textures that lull your attention somewhere between numbness and connection.

breathworks was presented as part of Desktop Ecologies, an initiative created by Kait Ramsden to produce an evening of desktop performances that encourage cross disciplinary experimentation and risk taking. 

Concept/choreography/sound: Kait Ramsden

Photos: screen captures of breathworks