https://heavyheavybreathing.com Heavy Breathing Tue, 26 May 2020 23:54:33 +0000 https://heavyheavybreathing.com en https://heavyheavybreathing.com/Media Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:45:00 +0000 Heavy Breathing https://heavyheavybreathing.com/Media <img width="227" height="124" width_o="227" height_o="124" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76818b25c2e4f77e12d1aff6c550c679414007af602c4678a25832de2b769c59/logo2_alt.png" data-mid="17511128" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/227/i/76818b25c2e4f77e12d1aff6c550c679414007af602c4678a25832de2b769c59/logo2_alt.png" /> HB/AV TRACKS: Artist-led audio and video movement workshops. Stream or download for free! Ross Simonini: To Your Under (2020, 11:00) Heavy Breathing presents, To Your Under,a brief exercise in pedal dexterity, neural elasticity, subliminal reality, and fluid personality. By Ross Simonini, read by Audrey Vignoles. Bio Ross Simonini is an interdisciplinary artist. Recently, he’s been living nomadically, mostly in California. He exhibits his work internationally, at various galleries, biennials and museums. For many years, he was a professional musician and now he makes music as ROOS and with the duo, NewVillager. His novel The Book of Formation is out with Melville House Books and he contributes dialogues to ArtReview, The Believer, and various other publications. He is currently the host of Subject Object Verb, a new podcast from ArtReview. Laura Hyunjhee Kim: Hi-Feel Lo-Tech Workout (HFLTW): Relaxation and Recovery (2020, 22:21) Have you been feeling unfamiliar guttural sensations but have not been able to pinpoint the cause? This virtual workshop has been designed for mind-body-conspicuous humans who experience increased feelosophical flows triggered by the subtle yet rapid changes from living-through-feeling in the technological environment. Through a series of intentional and meaningful synergistic micro-movements, the Hi-Feel Lo-Tech Workout (HFLTW): Relaxation and Recovery session aims to help you get in touch with your own embodied emotions -- those that are often felt before touched and sense-made before made-sense into. Together, in collaboration with a household cylindrical object of your choosing, we will focus on releasing muscle tension by means of self-myofascial release and return to a paused-state-of-condition that is mindfully present in-the-real-life-now.Instructions for listener/viewer-participants:To participate in the virtual workout remotely in the comforts of your own space of choosing, please prepare a foam roller or a cylindrical object that resembles the shape, size, and density of a foam roller that does not feel overwhelming on the body (ie. disconnected Amazon Alexa).Optional:Comfortable clothes (ie. pajamas)Blanket or a cushioned mat (ie. yoga mat) for extra supportSuggested readings: Returning to Health: With Dance, Movement and Imagery, Anna Halprin and Siegmar Gerken, LifeRhythm Books, 2002How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Mariner Books, 2017A Somatic Movement Approach to Fostering Emotional Resiliency through Laban Movement Analysis, Tsachor RP and Shafir T, Front. Hum. Neurosci. 11:410., 2017Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, The Accomplices / Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2019 Bio Laura Hyunjhee Kim is a Korean-American multimedia artist who contemplates and reimagines digitally constructed on/offline (non)human experiences. Thinking through making, she performs moments of incomprehension: when language loses its coherence, necessitates absurd leaps in logic, and reroutes into intuitive and improvisational sense-making forms of expression. Her current projects examine the influences of consumer technologies on human and (non)human interaction and the feelosophical experiences of the body. She is the founding director of Synthetic Empathic Intelligent Companion Artefacts (SEICA) Human Interaction Labs, founder of The Living Lab, co-founder of sharing turtle™ (with libi rose striegl), and one of the collaborators at the Centre for Emotional Materiality (founded by Surabhi Saraf ). Kim is the author of Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs, which was published by The Accomplices / Civil Coping Mechanisms (June 17, 2019) and the coauthor of Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital Media Object from the Onto-tales of the Digital Afterlife with Mark Amerika, published with Open Humanities Press (November, 2019).Kim has shown work in numerous on/offline exhibition spaces, screenings, and festivals around the world. She received the ArtSlant Award in New Media (2013), New Media Caucus Distinguished Scholar Award (2019), and Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award (2020). She was an artist-in-residence at the Internet Archive (2017), Korea National University of the Arts (2017), Black &amp; White Projects (2016), and at the Museum of Human Achievement (2019) and Electrofringe with artist libi rose striegl (2019).Kim received a B.S. in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and M.F.A. from the New Genres Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is a Ph.D. Candidate in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance (IAWP) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Liat Berdugo: Internet Aerobics (2020, 18:35) Filmed in a computer Lab, Internet Aerobics is a 20-minute aerobics workout routine about the internet, streaming to you through the internet. Aerobics props of long, blue ethernet cables are used, and hyperlink blue is celebrated as the color of online opportunity -- of links that have not yet been clicked. Aerobics moves embody multiple facets of online life, with packets of information speeding through wifi networks, routers, data centers, fiber optic cables -- often times at different speeds due to the lack of net neutrality laws. This workout routine is an invitation to you to sweat along in front of your own browser tab while thinking about and moving through the very makeup of the Internet, itself. Instructions for participants: Most aerobics use some kind of prop, and for this routine you’re going to need some kind of long cord, ideally an ethernet cable you have stashed away in your closet from before the days of wifi. But any cord will due, like a cell phone charging cable, an extension cord, or heck -- unplug your computer and use that! Also, make sure you have some space in front of your computer to move your body around. This aerobics routine isn’t about getting the steps right -- it’s about moving and thinking with and through internet infrastructure. As long as you’re moving, you’re good. Suggested readings: Ingrid Burrington, “A Network of Fragments” (The Atlantic, 2015) Kyle Vanhemert, “A Field Guide to the Internet Infrastructure That Hides in Plain Sight” (Wired, 2015) John Urban, “A Few Things You May Not Have Known About Ethernet Cable Construction” (2014) Rus Shuler, “Protocol Stacks and Packets” from “How Does the Internet Work?” (2005) Electronic Frontier Foundation on Net Neutrality Cecilia Kang, “Justice Department Sues to Stop California Net Neutrality Law” (New York Times, 2018) Guide to some other Bay Area&nbsp; Internet Service Providers (ISPs) beside the big corporations Keith Shaw, “What is DNS and how does it work?” (Networkworld, 2018) Tom Riecken, “Learning ASCII Character Codes Is Surprisingly Easy If You Follow This Guide” (2018) BiosLiat Berdugo is an artist, writer, and curator whose work focuses on embodiment and digitality, archive theory, and new economies. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals internationally, and she collaborates widely with individuals and archives. She is the co-founder and curator of the Bay Area’s Living Room Light Exchange, a monthly new media art salon; an artist-in-residence at the Internet Archive; and an assistant professor of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco. In her past life she was probably an aerobics instructor. Margaret McCarthy is a San Francisco-based artist whose work has received coverage on CNN, Mother Jones, and Fusion. She is an ensemble member and Co-Artistic Director of the SF Neo-Futurists. She has performed at SOMArts, Artists' Television Access, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Vanessa Hope Schneider is a writer, performer, and alum of the SF Neo-Futurists. She wants you to know that she knows about modern art. With infinite thanks to artists Elisabeth Nicula and Charlie Macquarie for their help with filming, and to Emily Martinez for brilliant graphics! Soundtrack credit: “World Wide Web” by Nick Borgen “DNS” by UV Protection “Internet Crash” by Promoe “Internet” by Tyskarna Fran Lund “Get Off the Internet” by Le Tigre “Computer Love” by Zapp &amp; Roger P Sazani, every particle of sand carries a piece of the mountain away (2020, 30:24) every particle of sand carries a piece of the mountain away is a three-part essay on erosion as a tour of the coastline of Vandenberg Air Force Base: a large, restricted base on the central coast of California. Along the way, the landscape will encourage participation in movement and writing exercises.&nbsp; With a pen and paper handy, prepare to consider edges (of bodies, of sentences, of continents) as sites of decay, renewal, and, crucially, encounter.Here are some soft suggestions for further reading — for either before or after listening:Renee Gladman’s introduction to her book Prose Architectures, Wave Books, 2017Karen Barad’s “Transmaterialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings” from GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2015The title of this piece is a line taken from Bill Nye’s episode on Erosion, Season 5 Episode 14, which I highly recommend: it is excellent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27dUMzUJvl8 Bio P Sazani is a writer, artist, and teacher living and working in Los Angeles. She writes science fiction about religion, poetry about matter, and essays about performance. She is one half of the All-Wash-Away Sacred Harp Singers of Los Angeles (AWASH), an experimental publication collective interested in semiotic disaster. Through AWASH she edits DanceNotes, a chapbook series that publishes experiments in dance notation. Her writing has been performed in Los Angeles at REDCAT, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the Women’s Center for Creative Work, the mortuary, and Beyond Baroque, and has been published by Wolfman Books, Vallum, and Riting. She is currently finishing a fellowship at CalArts. Clay AD and Rusti, Dysphoric Feelings / Euphoric Bodies (2020, 84:38) In this experiential audio workshop Clay (They/Them) and Rusti (She/They), friends and somatic bodyworkers, use their own bodies and experiences as a form of collaborative research, attempting to understand this thing called Dysphoria. This inquiry began when Clay was unable to find resources on this topic and invited Rusti to explore dysphoria somatically together, both from the perspective of being trans and experiencing dysphoria themselves and working with trans and gender variant clients in their respective practices.Starting from embodied research, they asked themselves questions such as, "How would you describe or give language to what happens in your body/mind when you experience gender dysphoria?”, and “Is it always useful and strategic to be embodied when you’re experiencing dysphoria?”In exploring the ways that dysphoria is both a social phenomenon and an individualized felt sense that differs for different bodies, a tool kit of body practices emerged to begin to unravel the boundaries and fault lines of gender dysphoria’s tangled relationship between self and other. Clay and Rusti found themselves in a messy cosmos outside of patholozation, where the body’s knowledge innately holds physicality, politics, autonomy and ancestors.Workshop Instructions:This is for trans and gender variant people who would like to dive deeper into understanding and working with their dysphoria. We hope the workshop can act as a stable frame to explore these topics, but we recognize this is very intense work so please take care of yourself. You can always pause the workshop and come back, or stop it. Ideally it would be great to practice in small groups for discussion afterwards, but it can also be practiced alone. Find yourself in a quiet room, in comfortable clothes; there will be minimal movement, but during practices we will suggest you change position (sitting/standing/laying) occasionally.RESOURCES:Trans Healthcare Manifesto, Edinburgh Action for Trans Health Dysphoria Means Total Destroy (2011)Trans Liberation and Feminism Self-determination, healthcare and revolutionary struggle by Michelle O’Brien (2003)Towards an Autonomous Trans Healthcare Zine by Power Makes Us Sick (2018)The Politics of Trauma by Staci Haines&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Queer Phenomenology by Sara Ahmed Trans Bodies and the Failure of Mirrors by S.J. LangerWe Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan Edited by Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma Bios Clay AD was born in Indianapolis Indiana and now lives in Berlin where they are a somatic bodyworker, artist and writer. In their interdisciplinary practice they honour and explore illness, ecology, science fiction, transformation and the politics of care under capitalism -- by themselves, collectively and with their clients. They are a certified practitioner of the Pantarei Approach and their somatic work is informed by their background in improvisational dance, and personal practice of breath-work, meditation and visualization. Their first novel, "Metabolize, If Able" is available through Arcadia Missa Press UK and was named a finalist in the 31st Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. They writing has been published by Pilot Press, Futures Journal, Hematopoiesis Press, and Monster House Press. They have led somatic and writing workshops at NGBK Berlin and Shedhalle Zurich, and read internationally including at the Institute for Contemporary Arts London. They received their BFA from Cooper Union in 2014. &nbsp;Clay's art and writing can be found on instagram at @pastacomplex and their somatic work @sentientsomaticsRusti (she/they) is a somatic organizer and practitioner currently living in Philadelphia, PA. She holds a MA in Embodiment Studies from Goddard College and has been training with the Strozzi Institute and generative somatics since 2016. She has also been a practicing LMT since 2011. Rusti is driven by a deep belief in the capabilities that our bodies hold to help us navigate, heal from, and disrupt the social conditions we exist within and are shaped by. She is the author of "Social Bodies: The Shaping of Internal and External Worlds", as well as various articles and zines. She facilitates various somatic workshops in Philadelphia, using embodiment as a tool for social research and collective healing. ThirdspaceSomatics.com IG: @thridspace.somaticsSound Credit:The sound editing was done by Kai Merke.Kai Merke is a nonbinary trans artist and works in the fields between activism, stage art and sound production. They graduated from Inter-University Center Dance Berlin (HZT) at University of the Arts Berlin in 2018. They are currently founding a dance studio cooperative in Copenhagen (DK), and work as &nbsp;a freelance choreographer, performer, sound producer and dramaturge. They co-founded Queer Producers, a weekly sound laboratory for queer sound artists based in Copenhagen, and work for FCNN (Feminist Collective with No Name) with Mariana Nobre Viera, Azahara Ubera, Emilie Empo Enlund, Xenia Taniko Dwertmann, Alejandro Karasik, Litó Walkey and Jules Fisher among many others. Kai is specialized in physical correlations between voice and movement through close a mentorship by voice anthropologist Ulrike Sowodniok since 2015. Kai's work on instagram: @kai.merke and jo.hotglue.me Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Breath/Measure/Commons (2020, 10:56) I am writing a book on aesthetic responses to a contemporary crisis in breathing. This social, political, and environmental crisis is typified by the increased pollution, weaponization, and monetization of air and breath, the consequences of which are unevenly distributed. Breath/Measure/Commons is an experiment that transposes the questions of exemplarity and generalizability I have been considering into the form of the meditation. Reading about other people’s breathing makes me aware of mine—but my breathing tells me very little about other people’s experiences. This is what I try to convey in a meditation that centers engagements with breathing within Black and Indigenous Studies: the limits of what breathing enables us to measure, or, put differently, how breathing registers the unevenness of the atmospheres we inhabit. The track includes instructions for a creative exercise. Listen on your own or with others, indoor or outdoor. As long as there is an environment to be sensed. BioJean-Thomas Tremblay is an assistant professor of English at New Mexico State University. Their scholarship in the environmental and medical humanities, literary and cultural studies, and feminist, queer, and trans studies, has been published in differences, Women and Performance, Criticism, Post45, New Review of Film and Television Studies, and Critical Inquiry. Their public writing has appeared in such venues as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Rambling, Full Stop, Arcade, Make Magazine, and Chicago Review.Jean-Thomas' monograph in progress, Breathing Aesthetics, argues that breathing has emerged, since the 1970s, as a medium that configures embodiment and experience as effects of biopolitical and necropolitical forces. Within a crisis in the reproduction of life marked by the air's pollution, weaponization, and monetization, articulations of individual and collective survival and persistence must grapple with the management and dispersal of the risks of breath. Breathing Aesthetics surveys minoritarian contexts where the aestheticization of breathing generates medium-specific and historically, culturally, and environmentally situated tactics and strategies for living under precarity. Jean-Thomas is also editing, with Drew Strombeck, the collection Avant-Gardes in Crisis: Art and Politics in the Long 1970s.More information on past and upcoming projects is available at jttremblay.wordpress.com. Layton Lachman and Samuel Hertz, The more a path is used, the more a path is used (2020, 51:21) Layton Lachman and Samuel Hertz draw from their long-standing artistic collaboration--as well as Lachman’s practice of Open Source Forms--in order to offer a guided movement experience. This workshop gives a taste of an Open Source Forms class, which is usually facilitated in a group setting, and is set to a soundscape composed by Hertz. Open Source Forms, developed by Stephanie Skura, is deeply rooted in &amp; fluidly expanded from Skinner Releasing Technique, utilizing images and hands on exercises to instigate a letting go into new modes of moving. The work is based in improvisation and a journeying together through different energetic states, with the desire to access different awarenesses in ourselves. We will traverse personally and collectively, sometimes diving headlong into a concept, while other times listening and looking at it obliquely.&nbsp;As well as moving, we will spend time writing and reflecting on our experiences. Some things to note: The session is experiential, meaning that whatever sensation, imagination, feeling, emotion...whatever comes up during the next hour is a valid experience! There is no one way in which to experience this session. It need not look a certain way. Make sure that you have some space to move around. Also make sure that you feel comfortable in whatever space you are in (a closed door in often helpful) because we might find ourselves in some states of consciousness that are deep and possibly vulnerable. This session is best listened to through a sound system to prevent obstructions to movement, however, is it also possible to listen to it on headphones. Let things take as long as they need. Your timing might be different than the pace that we suggest, however, feel free to let your own interest and internal timing guide how long you stay in something. You can always pause if you need more time. At the end of the session I will say, “now we can move into writing.” It’s nice to have your notebook and pen ready. This writing period is to digest our experience. It can be written in stream of consciousness, it can be a drawing, or any kind of marks on the page that help us process our experience. Give 5-10 minutes to this processes of reflection. Additional Reading &amp; Listening: https://soundcloud.com/endoftheworldshow/sister-interview-on-pleasure-activism https://web.archive.org/web/20181021195049/http://www.generativesomatics.org/content/theory-what-politicized-somatics (using the WayBack Machine for https://generativesomatics.org/ which is located in Oakland) Pauline Oliveros. "Auralizing in the Sonosphere: A Vocabulary for Inner Sound and Sounding" in Journal of Visual Culture 10(2). 2011. pp. 162-168. Sara Ahmed. "What's the Use." Duke University Press. 2019 BiosSamuel Hertz is a Berlin-based sound artist and researcher working at intersections of Earth-based sound, sonic sensualities, and climate change. Alongside his performances exists a strong research component based in Anthropocene studies, encompassing relationships between sound, geography, climate, and social ecologies working with institutions such as HKW/Max Planck Institute (DE), RHUL Centre for GeoHumanities (UK), and the University of Leeds (UK). Layton Lachman After working in the San Francisco Bay Area for seven years, Layton Lachman is now emerging as a Berlin-based artist. They are working in dance performance and continue to be deeply invested in the politics of alternative modes of artistic collaboration, curation, and social organizing. Their research is often in the realm of somatics and finding methods of utilizing these experiential practices in the creation of immersive worlds of sensorial complexity and perceptual disorientation. Danielle WrightWhite Culture, White Privilege and Your Mind/Body (2018, 18:33) Resources: Paying Attention to White Culture and Privilege: A Missing Link to Advancing Racial Equity by Gita Gulati-Partee and Maggie Potapchukwww.racialequitytools.org/resourcefile…lati_AB3.pdf"I May Have Privilege If ..."www.aacap.org/App_Themes/AACAP/d…e_privilege_if.pdfThe Problem with Privilege by Andrea Smithandrea366.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/th…andrea-smith/Citizen by Claudia Rankinewww.graywolfpress.org/books/citizenRacism 101 by Dr. Joy DeGruywww.youtube.com/watch?v=0mgYq5XKvLIAngela Hennessy's work (esp. the School of the Dead manifesto)www.angelahennessy.com/Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo's workwww.lukazabranfman-verissimo.com/ A mindful approach to racial equity work. Danielle Wright is a interdisciplinary visual artist drawn to the politics and poetics of witnessing. Her work examines language, materials, and the language of materials while exploring how notions of identity, intimacy, and trauma overlap/intersect. She is fascinated by where “you” end and “I” begin. As such her work aims to soften delineations between artist and viewer/participant. In addition to her studio practice, she serves as a Teaching Artist at Creativity Explored, a nonprofit art gallery and studio for adults with developmental disabilities in the Mission District of San Francisco. Website: www.daniellewright.infoIG: @mzwrightnow Carrie Hott Ten Machine Sleep Session (2018, 17:21)&nbsp; Resource: www.conair.com/c/25d42h54/soothi…-sound-machine/46 Listen in a dark room, lying down, eyes closed, and imagine being surrounded by ten sound machines and a coach, guiding you through sleep therapy on a megaphone. This track was made by collaging together and adapting segments from several sleep scripts found online, accompanied by all ten tracks from one Conair Sound Therapy Machine, including Tropical Forest, Thunderstorm, Summer Night, Ocean Waves, White Noise, Heartbeat, Songbirds, Waterfall, Running Stream, and Rainfall. As someone who struggles with sleeplessness and insomnia, I created this from various sources for others who have trouble sleeping, and need to drown out as much as possible. Carrie Hott is an interdisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California. Her work is informed by a roving research practice that explores the current and historic infrastructural systems that mediate our collective experiences and perceptions. Website: www.carriehott.com Christian NaglerCosmoconvulsive Anxiothenics (2018, 22:28) Readings:&nbsp;1. Ulrich Beck, Living in the World Risk Society, 20062. Michel Foucault, Security Territory, Population, Lectures at the College de France, 1979 (especially lecture #2)3. Benjamin Lee and Edward Lipuma, Circulatory Risks and the Speculative Habitus4. Dusan Makavejev, WR: Mysteries of the Organism, 19715. Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism, 1933 and Character Analysis, 19336. Claire Souch, Pushing the Boundaries of Catastrophe Modeling, 20147. Peter A. Levine Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma In this session we will delve deeply into some embodied non-solutions to the problem of global risk management. What are global risk management practices and how do they relate to our nervous systems? Listen, follow along and engage in an athletic and de-armoring session of Reichian somatics, full-corpus spasms, and galactic tingles. Wear comfortable clothes. Prepare to move, breathe intensely, yell, and freak out a little. IG @christiannagler Performer Bios Amelia Charter is an artist, performer and teacher living in Los Angeles. Kevin Nagler is an artist currently located in Abiquiu, New Mexico Susannah Schoff is a teacher who lives in Alameda, CA Chani BockwinkelSappho and Sweat(2018, 23:06) A luxurious and sweaty strange dance class to perform alone in your room. A thunderfuck of somatics, athletics and the burning words of Sappho's poetry. "...that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.”&nbsp;— Sappho Thank you to: all of the incredible musical artists on my Sappho Playlists, your music makes it all possible. To all the beautiful bodies I've danced with in group Sappho class. And all the freaky dance teachers who comprise my lineage.Readings:Anne Carson, If Not Winter, Fragments of SapphoTom Meyers, Anatomy TrainsIrene Dowd, Taking Root to FlyMary R. Lefkowitz, Women in Greek Myth Christina LindenMonsters Herding Cats, and Ducks In A Row (2018, 10:00)Audio guide for a session of stretching, rolling, crawling, and light contact improv for adults and their baby or toddler friends. Readings of selected excerpts from children's books and Moyra Davey's Mother Reader. Bring your own music. &nbsp; Claudia La Rocco If we are to have magical bodies we must have magical minds (2018, 18:40)This is a somewhat condensed version of my contribution to the Heavy Breathing series, which I performed at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 2017. It is a splice of my two practices, shuttling between very different or maybe very similar modes: my writing, and my teacher’s notes. Some of the writing is new and some of it is previously published; some of the notes are edited, and some are not. Kate Rhoades + Eli ThorneDirty Work(2018, 22:11)We lead couples in a strength training workout based on a chapter from Ann McClintock's book, Imperial Leather which investigates gender, violence, class, and BDSM in Victorian England. Participants will take turns being submissive or dominant and get dirty while building muscle. Special thanks to Stephanie Ellis. Tom ComittaBorn to Run(2018, 45:34) Born to Run is an audio chapbook that collages descriptions of running and jogging from over 60 novels. There's everything in here from Stephen King's The Running Man to Cynthia Voigt's The Runner, with a sprinkling of Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie and Samuel R. Delany. To experience this piece, a listener would get on a treadmill, elliptical or any artificial exercise device, put on headphones and press play.Thank you to Sophia Wang and Lisa Rybovich Crallé for creating a space and context for this piece. For more information on literary supercuts — mine and others — check out this conversation between me and Jez Burrows published by The Believer in May 2018:https://logger.believermag.com/post/comitta-burrows Tom Comitta is the author of ◯ (Ugly Ducking Presse), Airport Novella (Troll Thread), SENT (Invisible Venue) and First Thought Worst Thought: Collected Books 2011-2014 (Gauss PDF), a print and digital archive of 40 "night novels," art books and poetry. In 2017 he and Fire Drill staged Bill: The Musikill, an experimental musical, as part of Minneapolis's Momentum dance festival, commissioned by The Walker Art Center, The Cowles Center, and other local organizations. Previously based in the Bay Area, he now lives in Los Angeles. HEAVY BREATHING MEDIA Download or view the Heavy Breathing Reader (2016) Produced in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Arhive (BAMPFA) <img width="1728" height="2160" width_o="1728" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a68f04ed0daa69a980fa92d00018d94a4b33360548c0d18a471782bc513a230f/IMG_4307_salmon.jpg" data-mid="17177682" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a68f04ed0daa69a980fa92d00018d94a4b33360548c0d18a471782bc513a230f/IMG_4307_salmon.jpg" /> Download or view the Heavy Breathing Catalog (2015)Designed by ALTR Studio and Printed by COLPA PRESS <img width="2496" height="3592" width_o="2496" height_o="3592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f169f562c92420e6e22dc50f8cf1a63baa4307d48bddfa41ef61540c71a9de6c/IMG_4305_salmon.jpg" data-mid="17177343" border="0" data-scale="57" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f169f562c92420e6e22dc50f8cf1a63baa4307d48bddfa41ef61540c71a9de6c/IMG_4305_salmon.jpg" /> Order a Heavy Breathing Poster (2015)Designed by ALTR Studio and Printed by COLPA PRESS [ CURRENTLY SOLD OUT ] <img width="3000" height="2400" width_o="3000" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/deb79ce45f82ac213ac0a994d67a36790923deb57bec45d8e679763a0c1a7953/HeavyBreathing_Poster_Behance_PinkwYellowBKGD.png" data-mid="16779437" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/deb79ce45f82ac213ac0a994d67a36790923deb57bec45d8e679763a0c1a7953/HeavyBreathing_Poster_Behance_PinkwYellowBKGD.png" /> Wipe your sweat away! Order a Heavy Breathing BandanaDesigned by Savannah Rusher[ CURRENTLY SOLD OUT ] <img width="329" height="295" width_o="329" height_o="295" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27b83a0bc7a2341f554d80f494a9ec387a6a69d1f0ba1779c33a2833232e56e1/download.jpeg" data-mid="17106705" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/329/i/27b83a0bc7a2341f554d80f494a9ec387a6a69d1f0ba1779c33a2833232e56e1/download.jpeg" /> https://heavyheavybreathing.com/Events Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:46:00 +0000 Heavy Breathing https://heavyheavybreathing.com/Events HEAVY BREATHING EVENTS https://heavyheavybreathing.com/Press Mon, 28 May 2018 14:46:59 +0000 Heavy Breathing https://heavyheavybreathing.com/Press HEAVY BREATHING PRESS <img width="1242" height="1330" width_o="1242" height_o="1330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74f0d06eca7e4e8c08423aa08b8e30fa5965ff0aab8facfeec2b32890dca5deb/IMG_85D7876E9823-1.jpeg" data-mid="77585544" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74f0d06eca7e4e8c08423aa08b8e30fa5965ff0aab8facfeec2b32890dca5deb/IMG_85D7876E9823-1.jpeg" /> Joe Kukura, SFMOMA Executive Steps Down After Instagram Institutional Racism Incident SFIST July 3, 2020 <img width="1242" height="1803" width_o="1242" height_o="1803" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b7446f4a0cb6d1ac9775e405554d69e0b9d4e1583bd9e081a73d4c901e86d18/IMG_335662FA4714-1.jpeg" data-mid="77586065" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b7446f4a0cb6d1ac9775e405554d69e0b9d4e1583bd9e081a73d4c901e86d18/IMG_335662FA4714-1.jpeg" /> Tony Bravo, SFMOMA Official Resigns Amid Uproar Over Deletion of Comment by Black Ex-Emplyee. Datebook, July 2, 2020 <img width="1242" height="2013" width_o="1242" height_o="2013" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d83007c9801adaef27d4c9601d58a680112b29e5513b70515a983e21f686ad9/IMG_3801D00D6D4F-1.jpeg" data-mid="77585699" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d83007c9801adaef27d4c9601d58a680112b29e5513b70515a983e21f686ad9/IMG_3801D00D6D4F-1.jpeg" /> Sarah Hotchkiss, High-Ranking SFMOMA Employee to Leave During Ongoing Reckoning. KQED July 1, 2020 <img width="1242" height="1753" width_o="1242" height_o="1753" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b53326b46688e2fe01d6d0cd2e97896a7375453aeae270eba5ea1d48d3919519/IMG_E0FC02E56AAE-1.jpeg" data-mid="77586315" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b53326b46688e2fe01d6d0cd2e97896a7375453aeae270eba5ea1d48d3919519/IMG_E0FC02E56AAE-1.jpeg" /> Sam Lefebvre, SFMOMA Official Who Defended Censorship of Black Former Employee Steps Down. Hyperallergic July 1, 2020 <img width="552" height="670" width_o="552" height_o="670" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1785f30b9b1c2afdb7fafc39d6423811b6ae8f5380a70cef04392466b8fc1ec3/Screen-Shot-2020-06-18-at-10.33.48-AM.png" data-mid="75003092" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/552/i/1785f30b9b1c2afdb7fafc39d6423811b6ae8f5380a70cef04392466b8fc1ec3/Screen-Shot-2020-06-18-at-10.33.48-AM.png" /> Kate&nbsp;Rhoades and Maysoun Wazwaz,&nbsp;Drop the Cops!&nbsp;Congratulations Pinetree&nbsp;Episode #244June 15, 2020 <img width="1242" height="2103" width_o="1242" height_o="2103" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec4660d06cbe6cf781bc82c8da39a70c1d46e2ef0daf91e60d6ed4e82b85592e/IMG_318CEFDF4E00-1.jpeg" data-mid="73819878" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec4660d06cbe6cf781bc82c8da39a70c1d46e2ef0daf91e60d6ed4e82b85592e/IMG_318CEFDF4E00-1.jpeg" /> Robin Pogrebin and Julia Jacobs, Floyd Case Forces Arts Groups to Enter the Fray The New York Times. June 7, 2020 <img width="1242" height="2074" width_o="1242" height_o="2074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0d652c201c7a0a3624df2200a37750b297e27c11681c4cdd1a562d5da79b0ca/IMG_9033.PNG" data-mid="73819759" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0d652c201c7a0a3624df2200a37750b297e27c11681c4cdd1a562d5da79b0ca/IMG_9033.PNG" /> Tony Bravo, SFMOMA director apologizes for deleting critical comment by black ex-employee SF Chronicle. June 5, 2020 <img width="1242" height="1846" width_o="1242" height_o="1846" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44620f89388e4264d9f34a3d4ebf38e04f5b542216b76c728eccd3b6927ec63d/IMG_8957.jpg" data-mid="73394687" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44620f89388e4264d9f34a3d4ebf38e04f5b542216b76c728eccd3b6927ec63d/IMG_8957.jpg" /> Hakim Bishara, SFMOMA Accused of Censoring Black Voices After Removing Comment by Former Employee Hyperallergic. June 2, 2020 <img width="1242" height="1857" width_o="1242" height_o="1857" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c12eb0784df2206ea6c9943f2559d638464a46927d2db5c294f0426976d35592/IMG_8959.jpg" data-mid="73394956" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c12eb0784df2206ea6c9943f2559d638464a46927d2db5c294f0426976d35592/IMG_8959.jpg" /> Sam Lefebvre,&nbsp;SFMOMA Faces Censorship, Racism Accusations Over George Floyd Response KQED. June&nbsp; 2, 2020 <img width="1868" height="1200" width_o="1868" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20637fbf2d0b27da1af8de833796bf7ac0eef93bfaaf4365c890285d5706bd74/Screen-Shot-2020-06-02-at-1.17.03-PM.png" data-mid="73395268" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/20637fbf2d0b27da1af8de833796bf7ac0eef93bfaaf4365c890285d5706bd74/Screen-Shot-2020-06-02-at-1.17.03-PM.png" /> “Uncensor Black Narratives” image: Leila Weefur <img width="1218" height="1948" width_o="1218" height_o="1948" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc7257682850018a7cdd08d420cc6c3629905acec5c88ac904aa80308bd2faee/IMG_8960.jpg" data-mid="73394423" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc7257682850018a7cdd08d420cc6c3629905acec5c88ac904aa80308bd2faee/IMG_8960.jpg" /> Interview with Gillian Edevane, Heavy Breathing on Finding Creativity in Formal Constraints SFMOMA.org June 1, 2020&nbsp; <img width="938" height="1218" width_o="938" height_o="1218" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ba7fc0df0ef4fd4be337344ed2fd339d34904e1bdf605df42de929571e521c8/Screen-Shot-2018-05-28-at-8.21.51-AM.png" data-mid="17146346" border="0" data-scale="99" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/938/i/6ba7fc0df0ef4fd4be337344ed2fd339d34904e1bdf605df42de929571e521c8/Screen-Shot-2018-05-28-at-8.21.51-AM.png" /> Rhoades, Kate and Wazwaz, Maysoun Interview with Heavy Breathing Congratulations Pinetree Episode #155 Dec 22, 2017 <img width="576" height="543" width_o="576" height_o="543" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3e10c7fdc33d9254edb90620e6255de1c10f85531ed24cec6b2e6e42b62987b/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.49.25-AM.png" data-mid="17144676" border="0" data-scale="97" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/576/i/b3e10c7fdc33d9254edb90620e6255de1c10f85531ed24cec6b2e6e42b62987b/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.49.25-AM.png" /> Wang, Sophia Thinking Bodies: Heavy Breathing 2015-2016. SFAQ Vol 2, Issue 7, December 2016 <img width="576" height="569" width_o="576" height_o="569" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c18acebcb280e5e5b948f256358cc9627535022736db3820b760cb89ebd4cd3/download-1.jpeg" data-mid="17144933" border="0" data-scale="96" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/576/i/7c18acebcb280e5e5b948f256358cc9627535022736db3820b760cb89ebd4cd3/download-1.jpeg" /> Burke,Sarah&nbsp; Experiments in Amplification: The Year in East Bay Art East Bay Express.&nbsp;Dec 23, 2015 <img width="576" height="347" width_o="576" height_o="347" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa4214f1b23d2a29969d48edb6ac44ea5bb2e5cab5941765ca9f1058c3410cf5/Screen-Shot-2015-10-09-at-12.34.58-PM.png" data-mid="17145575" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/576/i/aa4214f1b23d2a29969d48edb6ac44ea5bb2e5cab5941765ca9f1058c3410cf5/Screen-Shot-2015-10-09-at-12.34.58-PM.png" /> Harbour, Aaron Interview with Heavy Breathing (1 of 2)&nbsp; Curiously Direct. Sept 16, 2015 <img width="576" height="320" width_o="576" height_o="320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8381ec5e96bbc91c008a2a418320e7c3ba6e316ad01e9011027ed219546762de/CuriouslyDirect2.png" data-mid="17145573" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/576/i/8381ec5e96bbc91c008a2a418320e7c3ba6e316ad01e9011027ed219546762de/CuriouslyDirect2.png" /> Harbour, Aaron Interview with Heavy Breathing (2 of 2)&nbsp; Curiously Direct. Sept 30, 2015 <img width="576" height="841" width_o="576" height_o="841" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ecb9277cba494a3b2eec647a03037e07e939bc04ca6c643a0ee66370de31b32/NewYorker.png" data-mid="17145617" border="0" data-scale="99" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/576/i/2ecb9277cba494a3b2eec647a03037e07e939bc04ca6c643a0ee66370de31b32/NewYorker.png" /> Howard, Rachel Sweating to Sappho The New Yorker.&nbsp;July 23, 2015 <img width="576" height="605" width_o="576" height_o="605" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0588a1357674b71a785fac1b0a5a7cf31fd7b434b3b27c2d69484bfa7468b7a/BrainGym.png" data-mid="17145903" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/576/i/f0588a1357674b71a785fac1b0a5a7cf31fd7b434b3b27c2d69484bfa7468b7a/BrainGym.png" /> Sarah Burke. Fitness for Your Brain East Bay Express. June 24, 2015 https://heavyheavybreathing.com/About Mon, 28 May 2018 15:32:34 +0000 Heavy Breathing https://heavyheavybreathing.com/About ABOUT HEAVY BREATHING + HB/AV Heavy Breathing is a series of experimental movement seminars designed by artists combining physical activity with group discussion on ideas related to their creative practice. Critical thinking often feels heady, abstract, and divorced from the body. How do conversations change when we are moving our bodies and out of breath? What new modes of thinking become possible? Heavy Breathing began in 2015 as a summer series of weekly seminars sponsored by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Award. The series brought together over 25 artists, writers, and researchers to lead twelve consecutive weekend sessions exploring the possibilities of “critical somatics” - thinking with and as bodies.&nbsp; In 2016 Heavy Breathing partnered with the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Together we presented six monthly sessions from June - November, 2016, as well as a special event in Jan 2017 to celebrate the release of the Heavy Breathing Reader. Since then we have been organizing artist-led events around the SF Bay Area and beyond, including the San Francisco Art Book Fair, Common Field Convening (LA), and the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries. In 2018, Heavy Breathing A/V launched at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), the Bangkok Biennial, and Meme Space (Taipei). In 2019 we became the happy recipients of a second Alternative Exposure award, and launched our first Open-Call for projects to take place Fall 2019/Winter 2020.For information about our current line-up, please see our event listings. Heavy Breathing is co-produced by artists&nbsp;Sophia Wang and Lisa Rybovich Crallé. For more info,&nbsp;drop us a line, visit our facebook page, or follow us on instagram. ︎ ︎ ︎ <img width="670" height="535" width_o="670" height_o="535" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9dbed9ac4cc438a329d44e9f92d3f9257435b7cc650d9ce1efbd7efa7c80ad6d/IMG_9600.PNG" data-mid="17168103" border="0" data-scale="73" alt="Heavy Breathing poster designed by ALTR Studio &amp; Printed by COLPA Press" data-caption="Heavy Breathing poster designed by ALTR Studio &amp; Printed by COLPA Press" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/670/i/9dbed9ac4cc438a329d44e9f92d3f9257435b7cc650d9ce1efbd7efa7c80ad6d/IMG_9600.PNG" /> Heavy Breathing poster designed by ALTR Studio and printed by COLPA Press (2015) https://heavyheavybreathing.com/Artists Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:44:52 +0000 Heavy Breathing https://heavyheavybreathing.com/Artists HEAVY BREATHING ARTISTS ︎ Clay AD was born in Indianapolis Indiana and now lives in Berlin where they are a somatic bodyworker, artist and writer. In their interdisciplinary practice they honour and explore illness, ecology, science fiction, transformation and the politics of care under capitalism -- by themselves, collectively and with their clients. They are a certified practitioner of the Pantarei Approach and their somatic work is informed by their background in improvisational dance, and personal practice of breath-work, meditation and visualization. Their first novel, "Metabolize, If Able" is available through Arcadia Missa Press UK and was named a finalist in the 31st Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. They writing has been published by Pilot Press, Futures Journal, Hematopoiesis Press, and Monster House Press. They have led somatic and writing workshops at NGBK Berlin and Shedhalle Zurich, and read internationally including at the Institute for Contemporary Arts London. They received their BFA from Cooper Union in 2014. &nbsp;Clay's art and writing can be found on instagram at @pastacomplex and their somatic work @sentientsomatics ︎ Caroline Alexander was born and raised in San Francisco and graduated with a degree in theater, dance, and performance studies from UC Berkeley. ︎ Larry Arrington is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher whose choreography has been shown at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Z Space, The Lab, CounterPULSE, ODC, The Garage, Cell Space, Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, Supperclub, backyards, living-rooms, and in New York at The American Realness Festival. She has been an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, CounterPULSE, Kunst-Stoff Arts, the Garage, and ODC’s Sandbox Series. ︎Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (b. Damascus, 1990) is a visual artist, performer and curator.&nbsp; Bhutto’s work explores complex histories of colonialism that are resurrected by contemporary international politics. In the process he unpacks the intersections of queerness and Islam through a multi-media practice.&nbsp; He has shown in galleries, museums and theaters globally, as well as spoken extensively on the intersections of faith, radical thought and futurity. ︎ Liat Berdugo is an artist, writer, and curator whose work focuses on embodiment and digitality, archive theory, and new economies. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals internationally, and she collaborates widely with individuals and archives. She is the co-founder and curator of the Bay Area’s Living Room Light Exchange, a monthly new media art salon; an artist-in-residence at the Internet Archive; and an assistant professor of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco. In her past life she was probably an aerobics instructor. ︎Chani Bockwinkel is a dancer person who works in photography and video. Her work was most recently shown at aunts, NYC and the Collage Festival in Philladelphia. ︎BONANZA, the collective practice of Conrad Guevara, Lindsay Tully, and Lana Williams, centers around ideas of abstraction and questions of authorship, while dismantling ideas of the heroic artist. They have exhibited at Tmoro Projects, Interface Gallery, Artists’ Television Access, and n/a in the Bay area. ︎ 8ulentina’s name is inspired by Bulent Ersoy, a legendary transgender Turkish singer. For 8ulentina, DJing is about creating a personal archive that tells a story; it can take the form of a Turkish trance remix, an Egyptian Mahraganat track, or a sad R&amp;B track. ︎ Sarah Burke&nbsp;is a journalist and curator based in Brooklyn, NY. Her writing focuses on art, identity, social justice, technology, feminism, and the intersection therein. She is currently an editor at Broadly. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Wired, KQED, Broadly, Artsy, SFMoMA Open Space, Momus, Hyperallergic, Creators, Art Practical, Hi-Fructose, Complex, and the East Bay Express - of which she is the former Managing Editor. ︎Joshua Kit Clayton is a musician, artist, and deejay based in San Francisco. He has been releasing and deejaying music in the space that spans and surrounds techno, house, dub, and noise for over 15 years, with recordings on a variety of labels including Orthlorng Musork, Cytrax, ~Scape, DropBeat, Soul Jazz, Context, Parallel, Mille Plateaux, Vertical Form, Background, Nummer, Musique Risquée, and Car Park. ︎Zen Cohen received her MFA in Art Studio at the University of California at Davis and her BFA in Media Arts from the California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA. Her video, photo and performance projects have been presented in venues such as the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SFMOMA, deYoung Museum, Centro Atlántico Arte Moderno, ARTSpace New Haven, Vanity Projects, Center for New Music &amp; Audio Technologies at UC Berkeley, Recombinant Media Lab, SOMArts, Krowswork, 21 Grand, Roxie Cinema and Artists Television Access (ATA).︎Tom Comitta is the author of ◯ (Ugly Ducking Presse), Airport Novella (Troll Thread), SENT (Invisible Venue) and First Thought Worst Thought: Collected Books 2011-2014(Gauss PDF), a print and digital archive of 40 "night novels," art books and poetry. In 2017 he and Fire Drill staged Bill: The Musikill, an experimental musical, as part of Minneapolis's Momentum dance festival, commissioned by The Walker Art Center, The Cowles Center, and other local organizations. Previously based in the Bay Area, he now lives in Los Angeles. ︎ Sofía Córdova: Born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico and currently based in Oakland, California, Córdova's work considers sci-fi and futurity, dance and music culture(s), the internet, mystical things, extinction and mutation, migration, and climate change under the conditions of late capitalism and its technologies. She is one half of the music duo, XUXA SANTAMARIA. Through this project she scores all of her video and performance work.︎Lisa Rybovich Crallé is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Bay Area. Her research focuses on corporeality and embodied experience in relation to sculpture, installation, and performance — art forms that respond to the physical presence of a viewer or participant. Her work has been presented at Cornell University, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Berkeley Art Museum, Syracuse University, Mills College, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Land and Sea, and Field Projects, among other venues. In addition to her studio practice, Lisa teaches at Berkeley City College and co-organizes Heavy Breathing with Sophia Wang. ︎ Laura Boles Faw’s work consists of investigations through sculptural objects, installations, curatorial projects, and collaborative ventures. She examines spatial and social constructions and looks to create new meanings and transformative fictions. She has exhibited at Scrawl Center for Drawing, Ever Gold Gallery, Alterspace, Meridian Gallery, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and Vast Space Projects in Las Vegas. ︎ Margit Galanter, MA GCFP is a movement educator, arts investigator, and dance poet living in Oakland. Her unique practice, Physical Intelligence, helps people experience the innate clarity and vitality one can uncover through the potency of movement. Physical Intelligence incorporates Margit’s expertise as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm, acupressurist, qigong practitioner, and movement artist. Margit received an MA in Movement Research and Practice from NYU’s Gallatin School in 2004. She works one-on-one with clients, teaches workshops, performs, and collaborates with practitioners from a wide range of media and disciplines. In her practices, she is committed to nourishing vivid lives. ︎Elena Gross is an independent writer and culture critic living in Oakland, CA. She received an MA in Visual &amp; Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts in 2016, and her BA in Art History and Women, Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2012. She specializes in representations of identity in fine art, photography, and popular media. Elena was formerly the creator and co-host of the arts &amp; visual culture podcast what are you looking at? published by Art Practical. Her most recent research has been centered around conceptual and material abstractions of the body in the work of Black modern and contemporary artists. She has presented her writing and research at institutions and conferences across the U.S., including Nook Gallery, Southern Exposure, KADIST, Harvard College, YBCA, California College of the Arts, and the GLBT History Museum. Gross is the Exhibitions Associate at the Museum of the African Diaspora. ︎ Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon works in sound, installation, sculpture and performance. Her work is devised around audio and spatial feedback systems that manipulate the visitor’s awareness of sound and space. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (2004) and an MFA from Stanford University (2011) where her research focused on the history of communications technology and the physiological and psychophysical effects of music and sound on the body.&nbsp; ︎ Nola Hanson (b. 1991, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a trans artist whose practice centers the role of embodiment in contemporary social systems. Nola received their BFA in Painting and Art Criticism from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2014. They started boxing at the New Bed Stuy Boxing Center, a community-run boxing gym in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn in 2015. In 2017 they founded Trans Boxing, an experimental boxing club that prioritizes participants of various identities who have limited access to boxing training. Nola's practice includes independent work as well as collaborative socially engaged projects, and has been shown in New York, Chicago, Portland, and Milwaukee. Nola is currently an MFA candidate in the Art and Social Practice program at Portland State University. ︎ Samuel Hertz is a Berlin-based sound artist and researcher working at intersections of Earth-based sound, sonic sensualities, and climate change. Alongside his performances exists a strong research component based in Anthropocene studies, encompassing relationships between sound, geography, climate, and social ecologies working with institutions such as HKW/Max Planck Institute (DE), RHUL Centre for GeoHumanities (UK), and the University of Leeds (UK). ︎ Carrie Hott is an interdisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California. Her work is informed by a roving research practice that explores the current and historic infrastructural systems that mediate our collective experiences and perceptions. ︎ Xandra Ibarra&nbsp;is an Oakland-based performance artist from the El Paso/Juarez border who performs and works under the alias of La Chica Boom. She uses hyperbolized modes of racialization and sexualization to test the boundaries between her own body and coloniality, compulsory whiteness, Mexicanidad, and proper and improper ethnic, gender, and queer subjects. As a community organizer, Ibarra’s work is located within immigrant, anti-rape, and prison abolitionist movements. ︎ Christopher Robert Jones is an interdisciplinary artist based in Illinois. Their research is centered around the ‘failure’ or ‘malfunctioning’ of the body and how those experiences are situated at points of intersection between queer and crip discourses. Using sculpture, installation, and performance strategies, their work aims to create ruptures in the layers of cultural/political/historical sediment through which compulsory normativity and compulsory ablebodiedness are disseminated. Christopher received B.A.s in Art Studio and Technocultural studies from UC Davis and is currently a M.F.A. candidate at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. ︎Laura Hyunjhee Kim is a Korean-American multimedia artist who contemplates and reimagines digitally constructed on/offline (non)human experiences. Thinking through making, she performs moments of incomprehension: when language loses its coherence, necessitates absurd leaps in logic, and reroutes into intuitive and improvisational sense-making forms of expression. Her current projects examine the influences of consumer technologies on human and (non)human interaction and the feelosophical experiences of the body. She is the founding director of Synthetic Empathic Intelligent Companion Artefacts (SEICA) Human Interaction Labs, founder of The Living Lab, co-founder of sharing turtle™ (with libi rose striegl), and one of the collaborators at the Centre for Emotional Materiality (founded by Surabhi Saraf ). Kim is the author of Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs, which was published by The Accomplices / Civil Coping Mechanisms (June 17, 2019) and the coauthor of Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital Media Object from the Onto-tales of the Digital Afterlife with Mark Amerika, published with Open Humanities Press (November, 2019). Kim has shown work in numerous on/offline exhibition spaces, screenings, and festivals around the world. She received the ArtSlant Award in New Media (2013), New Media Caucus Distinguished Scholar Award (2019), and Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award (2020). She was an artist-in-residence at the Internet Archive (2017), Korea National University of the Arts (2017), Black &amp; White Projects (2016), and at the Museum of Human Achievement (2019) and Electrofringe with artist libi rose striegl (2019). Kim received a B.S. in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and M.F.A. from the New Genres Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is a Ph.D. Candidate in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance (IAWP) at the University of Colorado Boulder. ︎ Claudia La Rocco is the author of The Best Most Useless Dress (Badlands Unlimited), selected poetry, performance texts, images and criticism, and the novel petit cadeau, which was published by The Chocolate Factory Theater in print and live editions. She has received grants and residencies from such organizations as the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation, and Headlands Center for the Arts, and has bylines in numerous publications, including ARTFORUM,&nbsp;BOMB, and The New York Times, where she was an arts critic and reporter from 2005-2015. animals &amp; giraffes, her duo with musician/composer Phillip Greenlief and an ongoing roster of collaborators, has released two albums: July (with various musicians; Edgetone Records, 2017) and Landlocked Beach (with Wobbly; Creative Sources, 2018). In February 2016 she became editor-in-chief of Open Space. ︎Layton Lachman After working in the San Francisco Bay Area for seven years, Layton Lachman is now emerging as a Berlin-based artist. They are working in dance performance and continue to be deeply invested in the politics of alternative modes of artistic collaboration, curation, and social organizing. Their research is often in the realm of somatics and finding methods of utilizing these experiential practices in the creation of immersive worlds of sensorial complexity and perceptual disorientation. ︎ Christina Linden began working as Associate Curator of Painting &amp; Sculpture at the Oakland Museum of California in the winter of 2013. Prior to her tenure at OMCA, Linden worked as an independent curator and writer based in Oakland with projects at SFMOMA, Kadist Art Foundation, and Stanford. She teaches as visiting graduate faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute, holds a Master of Arts in Curatorial Studies from Bard College, and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from New York University. ︎Claude Linden Smith was born in September 2014. Claude screams a lot and mostly in a happy way. While rolling used to be a favorite hobby, as of May 2015 there is a lot of crawling by sliding around on the belly like a lizard. Standing up with support is also a current interest, and a good guess is that there will be walking and running by August. ︎Julz Hale Mary is a multi-media performance artist who exposes the absurdity of polite society, with a particular focus on interrogating the white patriarchy by creating campy renderings of feminized pathologies. Their work has been featured at SOMArts, The Lab, Artists’ Television Access, Submission, The Stud, Seattle LGBT Film Festival, Boston LGBT Film Festival, and The Center for Sex and Culture. ︎ Olive Mckeon is a dancer and researcher from Northern California, who writes on the intersections between Marxism, feminism, and dance studies. She holds a doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles, completing a dissertation on historical materialist approaches to San Francisco modern dance history. From 2012-2017, she was a member of a curatorial collective called SALTA that put together a monthly series of experimental dance in Oakland. From 2015-2017, she co-directed the Dance Studies Working Group at UC Berkeley. She has danced with the choreographers Abby Crain, Hana van der Kolk, Sophia Wang, and Jmy James Kidd as well as in her own work. ︎ Olivia Mole was born in London, England in 1975. She attended The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University, and received an MA in Production Design from the National Film and Television School in the UK. Her work has been shown guerrilla style in her own garage, at Steven Wolf Fine Arts, Southern Exposure, the Wattis Institute, and Pro Arts Oakland. ︎Christian Nagler is an artist and writer based in Oakland, California. He works at the intersection of bodily movement and geo-financial systems. Recent projects include Market Fitness and Yoga for Adjuncts, which pursues economic critique through kinesthetic, participatory performances. Lately, he has been doing ethnographic research into the performance culture of Silicon Valley, making videos like Shoulder Babies, and working to build an organization called phoebe.A book Human Capital: A Life was published in 2016. Other recent writing can be found in TDR, Performance Research, and Art Practical. ︎ Raphael Noz is a San Francisco-based artist and educator whose performances have been shown at The San Diego Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, as well as many galleries and venues in the Bay Area and beyond. He holds an MFA from CCA and an MS from Wheelock College in Education, and is currently a Root Division studio artist. ︎Jasmine Nyende is a new media and performance artist from South Central Los Angeles. Her work revolves around social media and deleted posts, the shame in public memory and the ephemerality of beauty. She sees her art as a never-ending attempt to take the perfect selfie. Jasmine is currently writing a book of poems entitled Tension about a family. She runs a radio show on KCHUNG Radio and publishes the art &amp; poetry zine Fit Form Function.Her band&nbsp;Fuck U Pay Us is an Afropunk band based out of South Central, LA. They are Uhuru Moor (vocals/guitar), Tianna Nicole (drums), Jasmine Nyende (vocals), and Ayotunde Osareme (bass). ︎Jeepneys (Anna Luisa Petrisko) is a Los Angeles-based multimedia artist. Named after the iconic converted WWII army jeeps of the Philippines, she is of mixed race Filipina and Slovak heritage and her work focuses on the complexities of identity, memory, and language through a decolonizing and critical lens.&nbsp; ︎Brontez Purnell is author of the cult zine “Fag School,” frontman for his band “The Younger Lovers,” and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. He earned a B.F.A. in Theatre and Contemporary Dance at California State University, East Bay, just published his first novella,” Johnny Would You Love Me (if My Dick Were Bigger),” with Rudos and Rubes, and will publish a second novel, “Since I Laid My Burden Down…,” with the Sister Spit imprint of City Lights Books. ︎Kate Rhoades is an Oakland-based multimedia artist. She received her BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design and her MFA from Mills College. Rhoades has been a guest lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley and has taught art students of all ages. Her work has been exhibited in art venues, alleys, and hotel rooms across the United States and Canada. ︎ Judith Rodenbeck’s&nbsp; teaching and research encompass critical theory, performance studies, the politics of aesthetics, and radical pedagogy, especially as these engage with modernism and its avant-gardes and with contemporary art.&nbsp; Her first book Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings (MIT, 2011) explores the emergence of performance and intermedia in the American fine arts of the 1950s. She is currently working on several book-length projects: case-studies of four women artists engaged with media ecologies ca. 1969, which will feature essays on Lygia Clark, Joan Jonas, Alison Knowles, and Marta Minujin; a longitudinal study of the intersections between what Marcel Mauss called “techniques of the body” and the visual arts, configured through the notion of the performative; and an experimental text, Bipedal Modernity. Her work has also appeared in journals such as October, Grey Room, X-TRA, Artforum, Modern Painters, Sculpture, Woman’s Art Journaland Camera Austria, among others. Rodenbeck is assistant professor of media and cultural studies at University of California, Riverside.︎ Rusti (she/they) is a somatic organizer and practitioner currently living in Philadelphia, PA. She holds a MA in Embodiment Studies from Goddard College and has been training with the Strozzi Institute and generative somatics since 2016. She has also been a practicing LMT since 2011. Rusti is driven by a deep belief in the capabilities that our bodies hold to help us navigate, heal from, and disrupt the social conditions we exist within and are shaped by. She is the author of "Social Bodies: The Shaping of Internal and External Worlds", as well as various articles and zines. She facilitates various somatic workshops in Philadelphia, using embodiment as a tool for social research and collective healing. IG: @thridspace.somatics ︎ P Sazani is a writer, artist, and teacher living and working in Los Angeles. She writes science fiction about religion, poetry about matter, and essays about performance. She is one half of the All-Wash-Away Sacred Harp Singers of Los Angeles (AWASH), an experimental publication collective interested in semiotic disaster. Through AWASH she edits DanceNotes, a chapbook series that publishes experiments in dance notation. Her writing has been performed in Los Angeles at REDCAT, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the Women’s Center for Creative Work, the mortuary, and Beyond Baroque, and has been published by Wolfman Books, Vallum, and Riting. She is currently finishing a fellowship at CalArts. ︎ Peter Simensky is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Museum 52, New York; Museum 500meter, Sapporo; The Swiss Institute, New York; and Project Row Houses, Houston. He is a&nbsp; recipient of the NYFA Fellows Grant, Oregon Arts Commission / Hallie Ford Family Opportunity Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants, MacDowell Colony, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture to name a few. Currently he is producing work and research on the silver industry for the La Tallera, Proyecto Siqueiros in Mexico City / Cuernavaca, MX. Peter Simensky Chairs the Sculpture, Individualized, and Community Arts programs at California College of the Arts. ︎Ross Simonini is an interdisciplinary artist. Recently, he’s been living nomadically, mostly in California. He exhibits his work internationally, at various galleries, biennials and museums. For many years, he was a professional musician and now he makes music as ROOS and with the duo, NewVillager. His novel The Book of Formation is out with Melville House Books and he contributes dialogues to ArtReview, The Believer, and various other publications. He is currently the host of Subject Object Verb, a new podcast from ArtReview. ︎ Chris Sollars Artist and director of 667Shotwell, Sollars work revolves around the reclamation and subversion of public space through interventions and performance. The results are documented using photographs, sculpture, and video that are integrated into mixed-media installations. Sollars is an Assistant Professor in Sculpture, Mills College, Oakland, CA. Awards include 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2013 San Francisco Arts Commission: Individual Artist Commission Grant, 2012 Center for Cultural Innovation Investing in Artists Grant, 2007 Eureka Fellowship Award, 2007 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Grant, 2009 Headlands Center for the Arts residency, and 2015 Recology Artist is Residence. ︎ Stairwell’s is a hybrid project – part curatorial platform, part social engagement – run by artists Carey Lin and Sarah Hotchkiss. Founded in 2011, we organize site-specific exhibitions, interactive events and facilitated explorations of the urban landscape. We aim to create new models for audiences to engage with art by shifting exhibitions out of traditional gallery settings and into transitional spaces like stairwells, garages, balconies and windows. ︎Stephanie Syjuco: Born in the Philippines in 1974, Syjuco received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is the recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship Award and a 2009 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, and included in exhibitions at MoMA/P.S.1, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ZKM Center for Art and Technology, the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, The 12th Havana Bienal, The 2015 Asian Art Biennial (Taiwan), among others. A long-time educator, she has taught at Stanford University, The California College of the Arts, The San Francisco Art Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, and is an Assistant Professor in Sculpture at the University of California at Berkeley. She lives and works in Oakland, California. ︎Liza Sylvestre is the co-founder of Creating Language Through Arts, an educational arts residency that focuses on using art as a means of communication when there are language barriers present due to hearing loss. In 2014 she was awarded both and Artists Initiative and Arts Learning grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Recently she has been the recipient of a VSA Jerome Emerging Artists Grant, a fellowship through Art(ists) on the Verge and an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has been shown nationally at venues including The Plains Art Museum, the Weisman Art Museum, Roots and Culture, Lease Agreement Gallery, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, and Soo VAC. Her work has been&nbsp;written&nbsp;about in&nbsp;Art in America,&nbsp;Mousse Magazine,&nbsp;SciArt Magazine&nbsp;and the Weisman Art Museum's Incubator Web Platform.&nbsp;Most recently Sylvestre has served as the artist in residence at the Center for Applied Translational Sensory Science and the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, MN. In February 2019 the Minnesota Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing (MNCDHH) awarded Sylvestre a Citizen Advocate Award for her exemplary work in&nbsp;advocating for and&nbsp;with deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing Minnesotans. During the 2019/20 academic year Sylvestre is a Kate Neal Kinley fellow completing work at Gallery 400 and the University of Chicago, and a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. ︎Brian Tester has been involved in music and art-focused practices and collaborations since the late 1990s, bringing a focus on sonic detail, left field allusion, and an intuitive grasp of improvisation to each musical project he has been involved in. In addition to solo appearances, he currently performs in the minimal electronics duo Spaceburn, and in a constantly morphing variety of bands and projects, as performer and engineer. ︎Eli Thorne is a transgender Oakland based hybrid artist born in Harrogate, England, and raised in Santa Cruz, California. He received his BFA from UC Berkeley and his MFA from Mills College. His work has been shown in a variety of spaces in the Bay Area, the greater US, and Canada. ︎Cassie Thornton is a feminist economist and artist. In her newest work, she turns towards the development of experimental&nbsp;techniques for healing the social and biomedical wounds that result from surviving smash and grab capitalism. These techniques are meant to&nbsp;support the development of collective powers for&nbsp;those made weak, invisible, sick and isolated by capitalism, so those who have been trampled may&nbsp;begin to heal and generate the ideas and&nbsp;practices for&nbsp;a&nbsp;benevolent future society. ︎Jean-Thomas Tremblay&nbsp;is an assistant professor of English at New Mexico State University. Their scholarship in the environmental and medical humanities, literary and cultural studies, and feminist, queer, and trans studies, has been published in differences, Women and Performance, Criticism, Post45, New Review of Film and Television Studies, and Critical Inquiry. Their public writing has appeared in such venues as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Rambling, Full Stop, Arcade, Make Magazine, and Chicago Review.Jean-Thomas' monograph in progress, Breathing Aesthetics, argues that breathing has emerged, since the 1970s, as a medium that configures embodiment and experience as effects of biopolitical and necropolitical forces. Within a crisis in the reproduction of life marked by the air's pollution, weaponization, and monetization, articulations of individual and collective survival and persistence must grapple with the management and dispersal of the risks of breath. Breathing Aesthetics surveys minoritarian contexts where the aestheticization of breathing generates medium-specific and historically, culturally, and environmentally situated tactics and strategies for living under precarity. Jean-Thomas is also editing, with Drew Strombeck, the collection Avant-Gardes in Crisis: Art and Politics in the Long 1970s.More information on past and upcoming projects is available at jttremblay.wordpress.com. ︎Sophia Wang creates and performs movement-based works in collaboration with performance artists, writers, and visual and sound artists. She co-founded the Brontez Purnell Dance Company and has danced for artists Xavier le Roy, Tino Sehgal, Jérôme Bel, Xandra Ibarra, and Amara Tabor-Smith. She earned a PhD in English from U.C. Berkeley, and integrates her research and performance practices through writing and curatorial projects focused on critical somatics: thinking with and as bodies. ︎ Leila Weefur (She/They/He) is a trans-gender-noncomforming artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Through video, installation, writing, and lecture-performances they examine the performativity intrinsic to systems of belonging present in our lived experiences. The work brings together concepts of the sensorial memory, abject, hyper surveillance, and the erotic. Weefur is a recipient of the Hung Liu award, the Murphy &amp; Cadogan award, and the Walter &amp; Elise Haas Creative Work Fund. Weefur has worked with local and national institutions including SFMOMA, The Wattis Institute, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York. Weefur is a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute. They are a member of film collective, The Black Aesthetic. ︎ Anna Martine Whitehead&nbsp;does performance. She has been presented by venues including the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art; San José Museum of Art; Velocity Dance Center; Chicago Cultural Center; Links Hall; AUNTS; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has developed her craft working closely with Onye Ozuzu, Jefferson Pinder, taisha paggett, Every house has a door, Keith Hennessy, BodyCartography Project, Julien Prévieux, Jesse Hewit, and the Prison + Neighborhood Art Project, among others. She has been recognized with awards from the Graham Foundation, 3Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, Rauschenberg Foundation, and Djerassi. Martine has written about blackness, queerness, and bodies in action for Art21 Magazine, C Magazine, frieze, Art Practical; and has contributed chapters to a range of publications including Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings (Oxford, 2017), Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements (Sobsercove, 2016), Platforms: Ten Years of Chances Dances (2016), and Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism (NYU, 2009). Martine is the author of TREASURE | My Black Rupture (Thread Makes Blanket, 2016). ︎ Danielle Wright&nbsp;is a interdisciplinary visual artist drawn to the politics and poetics of witnessing. Her work examines language, materials, and the language of materials while exploring how notions of identity, intimacy, and trauma overlap/intersect. She is fascinated by where “you” end and “I” begin. As such her work aims to soften delineations between artist and viewer/participant. In addition to her studio practice, she serves as a Teaching Artist at Creativity Explored, a nonprofit art gallery and studio for adults with developmental disabilities in the Mission District of San Francisco. https://heavyheavybreathing.com/52-SFMOMA-Take-Over Tue, 26 May 2020 23:54:33 +0000 Heavy Breathing https://heavyheavybreathing.com/52-SFMOMA-Take-Over June 1-9, 2020 SFMOMA TAKEOVER<img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4eb6dd1010afbb82b05aa7f6c14b40d37edec30ab84721d1d137f965c0246ee1/Uncensor_Weefur.jpg" data-mid="73426108" border="0" data-scale="56" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4eb6dd1010afbb82b05aa7f6c14b40d37edec30ab84721d1d137f965c0246ee1/Uncensor_Weefur.jpg" />Image credit: Leila Weefur Heavy Breathing was included in SFMOMA’s&nbsp;#museumfromhome Community in Residence initiative in early June. The program engaged six art collectives to respond to the question, “What does it mean for artists to work collaboratively in the time of social distancing?” As a response, Heavy Breathing commissioned an online public event, “How to Eat Blackberries,” a survey of Black consumption, created by artist Leila&nbsp; Weefur, and writer/curator Elena Gross. This project was scheduled to go live on SFMOMA’s website on June 4. In light of recent events at SFMOMA, Heavy Breathing, along with our featured artists Leila Weefur and Elena Gross, ended our residency with SFMOMA early, in solidarity with Taylor Brandon and our fellow SFMOMA Community in Residence collectives: Nure Collective, Prison Arts Project, CTRL+SHFT, Work More! and Bik Van Der Pol. We look forward to presenting Leila Weefur and Elena Gross’s event, How to Eat Blackberries, at a future date, and on a different platform (stay tuned). The integrity, vision and efforts of the people we have been in dialogue with during this time are inspiring and empowering. Thank you to current and former SFMOMA employees, SFMOMA Union, our fellow resident art collectives, and our expanded art communities. This local act of protest against SFMOMA’s institutional racism sits within the broader context of national protests against the violence that structural and systemic racism continue to deal to Black individuals and communities. We have no doubt that the conversations and actions launched this week in the streets and in our communities will be foundational to ongoing alliances and efforts towards racial justice and equity. We are proud of what we accomplished this week and we thank our extended community for your support and wisdom. We stand in solidarity with everyone who is standing against violence to Black lives and repression of Black voices.&nbsp;Additional accounts of these events can be found in KQED, Hyperallergic, NY Times, SF Chronicle, and MSN.&nbsp; <img width="4200" height="2363" width_o="4200" height_o="2363" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a76dd410eef9ff9ec090dce9c56d90448b16e84274bd6ab57910afe95bb3ba92/HowToEatBlackberries_Promo2.jpg" data-mid="72557962" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a76dd410eef9ff9ec090dce9c56d90448b16e84274bd6ab57910afe95bb3ba92/HowToEatBlackberries_Promo2.jpg" />Image: Leila Weefur, How to Eat Blackberries HOW TO EAT BLACKBERRIES&nbsp; For the SFMOMA Takeover, Heavy Breathing commissioned How to Eat Blackberries: a participatory instructional led by Leila Weefur with special guest Elena Gross. How to Eat Blackberries is a survey of Black consumption in a ceremony of dining etiquette. Weefur and Gross set the table to weed the fugitive language of Black performativity. From June 1 to June 9, the public is invited to call (415)618-3281 to reach The Blackberry Hotline, featuring a four-course dinner story on flavor, desire and hunger. MOVE YOUR THINKING Move Your Thinking (2020) features contributions from our community and documentation of Heavy Breathing workshops presented between 2015-2020. Edited by Justin Carder. Thanks to everyone who sent us footage: Crystal Barr, Michelle Cable (and Laurence!), Amanda Cadogan, Ben Carroll, Elizabeth Chodos, Tina Hittenberger, Aida Lizalde, Olive McKeon, Grace Rosario Perkins, Kate Pruitt, Clarke Selman, Lauren Selman, Peter Simensky, Zoe Taleporos, Martin Yernazian, Danielle Wright, and Tip the dog, and Fonda the dog. WORD PLAY&nbsp; <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ffb5521246ef2fcc042b2b910a0c661657137cc1e9b949a3e411566142cd52da/WordPlay_HeavyBreathing_Blue.jpg" data-mid="72558378" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ffb5521246ef2fcc042b2b910a0c661657137cc1e9b949a3e411566142cd52da/WordPlay_HeavyBreathing_Blue.jpg" /> Image: Heavy Breathing’s family activity, “Word Play” featuring Ruby. Heavy Breathing presents “Word Play,” an all-ages activity that asks participants to think with their body about words. 1) Pick a word. It could be: Something you say a lot Something you like or don’t likeSomeone you know or someone famous &nbsp;Something funnySomething in the roomSomething you want to know more about 2) Write that word down on a piece of paper. <img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/mARswOAdcA1vyIpXw528bhjYEN-jzajrhSjJz06YIbSsICusTLgXtrVsx9qv07lkI0B7vPBpwo_hbPGvOGLm66kxacYSL7UVz9PonCx_gGgxImdB-U2sDcbG4L9Ru5rWwtCkeHfi" width="270" height="268" style="width: 270px; height: 268px;"> Example by Ruby 3) SHAPE MOVEMENT Look at your word, written on the paper, paying attention to what the word looks like. What shapes do the letters make? Is the word short, medium or long? Are the letters round or angular or both? Do you see curves, lines or dots? Make a movement using your body that shows what this word looks like. If your word starts out round, then becomes angular, then round again, mimic those shapes with your movement. Try to remember this movement by doing it a few times. 4) SOUND MOVEMENT Say the word out loud 5 times, paying attention to the sound of this word. Is the word soft? hard? heavy? light? A mix of these things? Do any sounds in the word repeat? Is it easy or hard to say? Invent a walk that shows the sound of this word. Travel across the room, moving the way your word sounds. (If your word sounds “sharp” and “light” your walk should be sharp and light too). Try to remember this walk by doing it a few times. 5) MEANING MOVEMENT Now consider the meaning of your word. Move your body to show the meaning of this word.&nbsp; Your movement could be full-body, or a single part like your arm, leg, head, or hip. This can be straightforward (like pantomime) or silly. Try to remember this movement by doing it a few times. 6) COMBINE YOUR MOVEMENTS Combine your three movements together: Your movement that shows what this word looks likeYour walk across the room that shows how this word soundsYour movement that shows the meaning of this word 7) BONUS: FEELING MOVEMENT Add a movement using one part of your body (your hand? Your hip? Your head? Any part!) that shows how this word makes you feel. These are some ways of thinking with your body about words and how they work. Have fun, and share videos and images of your Word Play on social media with the #heavyheavybreathing hashtag. <img width="480" height="354" width_o="480" height_o="354" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b77044ae4e4d438407b33083410fbf3982ca615e7938a4068c7f84acf9e29b44/Screen-Shot-2020-06-07-at-4.04.45-PM.png" data-mid="73823131" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/480/i/b77044ae4e4d438407b33083410fbf3982ca615e7938a4068c7f84acf9e29b44/Screen-Shot-2020-06-07-at-4.04.45-PM.png" />HEAVY BREATHING Q&amp;A Heavy Breathing’s co-founders Lisa Rybovich Crallé and Sophia Wang sat down with SFMOMA to chat about collaborating during the Bay Area’s Shelter-in-Place, inspirations for Heavy Breathing and its evolution since 2015 and hopes for the Bay Area’s art community, moving forward. Full transcript below: Can you tell us a little bit about how the collective began? Lisa: In 2014, while at an artist residency, I had some memorable conversations while walking with the other residents. During these walks, I became aware of how our conversations changed as we got winded. The more out of breath we became, the more we relied on physical gestures and the more expansive our conversations became. Sophia and I were in touch at the time and we wondered whether this simple idea of combining movement with dialogue could become the basis for an artist lecture series. Sophia: In 2015, we presented our first season of 15 workshops that moved outside of typical artist talk conventions by using the model of a fitness class, and these took place in site-specific locations that included the Chinatown YMCA swimming pool in San Francisco and Lake Merritt in Oakland. The following year, we presented a 6-event series at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, adapting our model for the museum environment. How has it evolved since then? Sophia: In our third and fourth year we had limited funding, so we were just doing pop-up events, and that was great motivation for the evolution of Heavy Breathing AV, or HB/AV, where we’re commissioning artists to create either audio or video workshops that can be streamed or downloaded online. That opened up the audience and pool of artists we could work with. And it was a response to our material conditions, because we were able to do it on a much smaller budget — we weren’t producing live events. What does working collaboratively in the age of social distancing mean to you? How has your collective been grappling with it? Lisa: We were lucky that we had already begun engaging remotely through HB/AV, so the transition hasn’t been as rough as it could have been. We miss being able to share space with our community, and we often talk about Zoom fatigue and the inherent problems of being connected to a computer for so many hours a day. Those issues point back to the initial premise of Heavy Breathing and how important it is to get outside, move our bodies, and connect with one another, even if at arm’s length. Sophia: The restrictions we’re experiencing right now aren’t that different — because we live in different cities, we have always worked at a distance. I would echo Lisa that it’s been a rich experience to figure out a way to create an engaging experience that occurs online. It was fun to use the new parameters as a formal challenge, which is, I would say, the spirit of Heavy Breathing and the intersection of bringing together movement and discourse. What are some hopes you have for the Bay Area arts scene in a post-Covid future? Lisa: I’m interested to see how the pandemic changes our relationship to proximity, particularly with regard to art and educational spaces. I teach at Berkeley City College and we’re grappling with these questions on a daily basis. How can we create the kind of intimacy and support that’s possible in a shared classroom or social environment, remotely? What will these experiences look like when we are able to be together safely again? Any upheaval brings with it the promise of a fresh start, and I’d like to think that we will have a newfound appreciation for shared space and community when this situation is behind us. It’s not easy to maintain an optimistic outlook these days, but I am hopeful that the world we create will be better than the one we’ve left behind, meaning: more equity, more poetry and more connectedness. Sophia: As Bay Area companies normalize working remotely, additional space might become available to others who do want to work together in the same space but don’t have tech funding to pay for those spaces. My hopes are really materially grounded. I was really inspired by Southern Exposure focusing their AltEx grant program on emergency relief funding for artists in this community, and specifically artists who may be experiencing additional hardship due to marginalized status. I would love to see all the major institutions recognize people’s basic needs, and turn towards this as a more normalized approach: making sure artists have the support they need to stay in the cities where they have an arts community, and to make a living wage to support both their work and their lives. What are some books, films, pieces of art, or other media that you return to when you need inspiration, or that you consider foundational in some way, and why? Lisa: Lecture-performance practitioners such as Joseph Beuys, Andrea Fraser, Coco Fusco, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer, and Hito Steyerl.Gordon Hall’s work generally, and their Center for Experimental Lectures specifically as inspiration for Heavy Breathing.Artists who feel particularly relevant during the Covid-19 epidemic: Lygia Clark’s Relational Objects, Teching Hseih’s One Year performances, and pretty much everything by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Sophia: Dance and performance-based artists who centrally incorporate text, speech, writing and dialogue: Simon Forti’s News Animations and “moving the telling” practice, Jeanine Durning’s nonstopping practice and her solo inging, Bill T. Jones’ solo Breathing Show, Okwui Okpokwasili’s Poor People’s TV Room, David Thompson’s The Venus Knot, and Xavier Le Roy’s Product of Circumstances.Artists like Paul Chan, Ralph Lemon, and Martine Syms, who move between disciplines and have ongoing writing and publishing practices. --------------------------------------------------------------- https://heavyheavybreathing.com/51-Leila-Weefur-Elena-Gross Thu, 05 Mar 2020 05:01:33 +0000 Heavy Breathing https://heavyheavybreathing.com/51-Leila-Weefur-Elena-Gross Sun June 7, 2020 Leila Weefur: How to Eat Blackberries WITH SPECIAL GUEST ELENA GROSS <img width="2048" height="1152" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59c3ca80a2fad12ec8403a19943ca9c062a7eed282d6301f8c8f70eeab70fcd7/LeilaW.jpg" data-mid="62752920" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59c3ca80a2fad12ec8403a19943ca9c062a7eed282d6301f8c8f70eeab70fcd7/LeilaW.jpg" /> WORKSHOP DETAILS POSTPONED. Stay Tuned. Presented online in partnership with SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [see statement below]. From June 1 to June 9, the public is invited to call (415)618-3281 to reach&nbsp;The Blackberry Hotline, featuring a four-course dinner story on flavor, desire, and hunger. <img width="1000" height="631" width_o="1000" height_o="631" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20c77221e6f1b9d66369d46a979051357da353cd3a8d856addd6cbd66898e01e/BlackberryHotline.gif" data-mid="72803609" border="0" data-scale="84" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/20c77221e6f1b9d66369d46a979051357da353cd3a8d856addd6cbd66898e01e/BlackberryHotline.gif" />Image: Blackberry Hotline Heavy Breathing presents How to Eat Blackberries: a participatory instructional led by Leila Weefur with special guest Elena Gross.How to eat blackberries is a survey of Black consumption in a ceremony of dining etiquette. Leila Weefur and Elena Gross set the table to weed the fugitive language of Black performativity. This will be staged as a virtual dinner party, and as an appetizer to the main event, Weefur and Gross will share breadcrumbs in a pre-recorded audio narrative for participants to follow. Incorporating a dish made of blackberries, Leila Weefur and Elena Gross invite you to join as they dine their way through the touchstones of Blackness. <img width="4200" height="2363" width_o="4200" height_o="2363" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a76dd410eef9ff9ec090dce9c56d90448b16e84274bd6ab57910afe95bb3ba92/HowToEatBlackberries_Promo2.jpg" data-mid="72407016" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a76dd410eef9ff9ec090dce9c56d90448b16e84274bd6ab57910afe95bb3ba92/HowToEatBlackberries_Promo2.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45b491fa8f8be3ead664dbd5b86ba4ec280c0a1073846e8361e6dc16b8713b14/Uncensor_Weefur.jpg" data-mid="73427503" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45b491fa8f8be3ead664dbd5b86ba4ec280c0a1073846e8361e6dc16b8713b14/Uncensor_Weefur.jpg" />Image credit: Leila Weefur In light of recent events, we offer this statement in solidarity with everyone who is standing against violence to Black lives and repression of Black voices. Heavy Breathing and featured artists Leila Weefur and Elena Gross share our work with SFMOMA this week in the spirit of principled disagreement. We reject SFMOMA’s decision to censor community critique of the museum’s social media response to protests responding to the police murders of #GeorgeFloyd, #BreonnaTaylor, #RegisKorchinskiPaquet, #TonyMcDade and #AhmaudArbery. SFMOMA’s apology fails to acknowledge that their act of censorship, in deleting and disabling comments on their May 30th post, is a silencing act that is complicit with and enables systemized violence against Black individuals. Heavy Breathing, Weefur and Gross support criticism of the museum’s initial media response to the protests. SFMOMA leveraged the words and work of black artist Glenn Ligon, rather than offering a direct statement condemning violence against Black communities. SFMOMA’s Community in Residence program is an opportunity to amplify dialogue with artists and the public, and this week’s work is presented towards that goal. &nbsp; BIOS Leila Weefur (She/They/He) is a trans-gender-noncomforming artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Through video, installation, writing, and lecture-performances they examine the performativity intrinsic to systems of belonging present in our lived experiences. The work brings together concepts of the sensorial memory, abject, hyper surveillance, and the erotic. Weefur is a recipient of the Hung Liu award, the Murphy &amp; Cadogan award, and the Walter &amp; Elise Haas Creative Work Fund. Weefur has worked with local and national institutions including SFMOMA, The Wattis Institute, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, New York. Weefur is a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute. They are a member of the film collective, The Black Aesthetic.Elena Gross is an independent writer and culture critic living in Oakland, CA. She received an MA in Visual &amp; Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts in 2016, and her BA in Art History and Women, Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2012. She specializes in representations of identity in fine art, photography, and popular media. Elena was formerly the creator and co-host of the arts &amp; visual culture podcast what are you looking at? published by Art Practical. Her most recent research has been centered around conceptual and material abstractions of the body in the work of Black modern and contemporary artists. She has presented her writing and research at institutions and conferences across the U.S., including Nook Gallery, Southern Exposure, KADIST, Harvard College, YBCA, California College of the Arts, and the GLBT History Museum. Gross is the Exhibitions Associate at the Museum of the African Diaspora. <img width="4200" height="2363" width_o="4200" height_o="2363" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59f867ebbbd356aa768d97b979f3a6cb5a532a9d22637f4a85a70fd6efbf3cb7/HowToEatBlackberries_Promo1.jpg" data-mid="72407072" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59f867ebbbd356aa768d97b979f3a6cb5a532a9d22637f4a85a70fd6efbf3cb7/HowToEatBlackberries_Promo1.jpg" /> <img width="5783" height="3654" width_o="5783" height_o="3654" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/064278efa23961dfd2db0ad4fc25b7cc4e9402cd4588b8310cbec4c910c6e7ab/Blackberry-Hotline_Landscape.jpg" data-mid="72771133" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/064278efa23961dfd2db0ad4fc25b7cc4e9402cd4588b8310cbec4c910c6e7ab/Blackberry-Hotline_Landscape.jpg" /> https://heavyheavybreathing.com/50-Ross-Simonini Wed, 25 Mar 2020 23:48:06 +0000 Heavy Breathing https://heavyheavybreathing.com/50-Ross-Simonini April 10, 2020 Ross Simonini:&nbsp; To Your Under <img width="1280" height="1005" width_o="1280" height_o="1005" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/895ea4cc37745d168b446c95ce7af1623389e2adbefb2fe3be3081a61fd00eb1/unnamed.jpg" data-mid="67504331" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/895ea4cc37745d168b446c95ce7af1623389e2adbefb2fe3be3081a61fd00eb1/unnamed.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="1280" width_o="1280" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d55aefd2772ee905f83930e619c9e054aa81a4c0a73d15b494d203da118f506/ross1.jpg" data-mid="66048080" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d55aefd2772ee905f83930e619c9e054aa81a4c0a73d15b494d203da118f506/ross1.jpg" /> Heavy Breathing presents, To Your Under, by Ross Simonini, read by Audrey Vignoles. To Your Under is a brief exercise in pedal dexterity, neural elasticity, subliminal reality, and fluid personality. For this experience, you will need a chair, a sheet of paper, and a pen. BIO Ross Simonini is an interdisciplinary artist. Recently, he’s been living nomadically, mostly in California. He exhibits his work internationally, at various galleries, biennials and museums. For many years, he was a professional musician and now he makes music as ROOS and with the duo, NewVillager. His novel The Book of Formation is out with Melville House Books and he contributes dialogues to ArtReview, The Believer, and various other publications. He is currently the host of Subject Object Verb, a new podcast from ArtReview. <img width="1120" height="1614" width_o="1120" height_o="1614" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/211c790a263050117459be4d96d3fe784ed0bf9277298987a8ddd91293144026/to-my-under.jpg" data-mid="64602520" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/211c790a263050117459be4d96d3fe784ed0bf9277298987a8ddd91293144026/to-my-under.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b1be2f2b44c994a06be90ff20076c73b608aee280c7ffbf7a92926654ce064e/Simonini_Field.jpg" data-mid="64602519" border="0" data-scale="75" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b1be2f2b44c994a06be90ff20076c73b608aee280c7ffbf7a92926654ce064e/Simonini_Field.jpg" /> https://heavyheavybreathing.com/49-Laura-Hyunjhee-Kim Wed, 25 Mar 2020 23:47:17 +0000 Heavy Breathing https://heavyheavybreathing.com/49-Laura-Hyunjhee-Kim March 30, 2020 Laura Hyunjhee Kim:&nbsp; Hi-Feel Lo-Tech Workout (HFLTW): Relaxation and Recovery <img width="2536" height="1414" width_o="2536" height_o="1414" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2dd7cfb2fbb0f230dbec73cc8b27e6d515ff542a3fa9fc3a41c4699f0b894a9/HFTW_still5.png" data-mid="64601858" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2dd7cfb2fbb0f230dbec73cc8b27e6d515ff542a3fa9fc3a41c4699f0b894a9/HFTW_still5.png" /> Heavy Breathing presents,&nbsp;Hi-Feel Lo-Tech Workout (HFLTW): Relaxation and Recovery, by Laura Hyunjhee Kim.&nbsp; Have you been feeling unfamiliar guttural sensations but have not been able to pinpoint the cause? This virtual workshop has been designed for mind-body-conspicuous humans who experience increased feelosophical flows triggered by the subtle yet rapid changes from living-through-feeling in the technological environment. Through a series of intentional and meaningful synergistic micro-movements, the Hi-Feel Lo-Tech Workout (HFLTW): Relaxation and Recovery session aims to help you get in touch with your own embodied emotions -- those that are often felt before touched and sense-made before made-sense into. Together, in collaboration with a household cylindrical object of your choosing, we will focus on releasing muscle tension by means of self-myofascial release and return to a paused-state-of-condition that is mindfully present in-the-real-life-now. <img width="2542" height="1422" width_o="2542" height_o="1422" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4abb2fa1621ff984d7572673fa20a4bc12c06d6aaf3b959479fc7dd15af3a2ac/HFTW_still4.png" data-mid="64601845" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4abb2fa1621ff984d7572673fa20a4bc12c06d6aaf3b959479fc7dd15af3a2ac/HFTW_still4.png" /> Instructions for listener/viewer-participants: To participate in the virtual workout remotely in the comforts of your own space of choosing, please prepare a foam roller or a cylindrical object that resembles the shape, size, and density of a foam roller that does not feel overwhelming on the body (ie. disconnected Amazon Alexa). Optional: Comfortable clothes (ie. pajamas)Blanket or a cushioned mat (ie. yoga mat) for extra support Suggested readings:&nbsp; Returning to Health: With Dance, Movement and Imagery, Anna Halprin and Siegmar Gerken, LifeRhythm Books, 2002How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Mariner Books, 2017A Somatic Movement Approach to Fostering Emotional Resiliency through Laban Movement Analysis, Tsachor RP and Shafir T, Front. Hum. Neurosci. 11:410., 2017Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs, Laura Hyunjhee Kim, The Accomplices / Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2019 <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/982148eeb489feecce0fe5cae0255870d835153cd84ce7f3860021267af71290/HFTW_title.png" data-mid="64601835" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/982148eeb489feecce0fe5cae0255870d835153cd84ce7f3860021267af71290/HFTW_title.png" /> <img width="2544" height="1399" width_o="2544" height_o="1399" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ebc2b5c6991fe2c6a59c1722794a6a31a0f5c646632e410afba097b134f0225c/HFTW_still1.png" data-mid="64602110" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ebc2b5c6991fe2c6a59c1722794a6a31a0f5c646632e410afba097b134f0225c/HFTW_still1.png" /> BIO Laura Hyunjhee Kim is a Korean-American multimedia artist who contemplates and reimagines digitally constructed on/offline (non)human experiences. Thinking through making, she performs moments of incomprehension: when language loses its coherence, necessitates absurd leaps in logic, and reroutes into intuitive and improvisational sense-making forms of expression. Her current projects examine the influences of consumer technologies on human and (non)human interaction and the feelosophical experiences of the body. She is the founding director of Synthetic Empathic Intelligent Companion Artefacts (SEICA) Human Interaction Labs, founder of The Living Lab, co-founder of sharing turtle™ (with libi rose striegl), and one of the collaborators at the Centre for Emotional Materiality (founded by Surabhi Saraf ). Kim is the author of Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs, which was published by The Accomplices / Civil Coping Mechanisms (June 17, 2019) and the coauthor of Remixing Persona: An Imaginary Digital Media Object from the Onto-tales of the Digital Afterlife with Mark Amerika, published with Open Humanities Press (November, 2019). Kim has shown work in numerous on/offline exhibition spaces, screenings, and festivals around the world. She received the ArtSlant Award in New Media (2013), New Media Caucus Distinguished Scholar Award (2019), and Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award (2020). She was an artist-in-residence at the Internet Archive (2017), Korea National University of the Arts (2017), Black &amp; White Projects (2016), and at the Museum of Human Achievement (2019) and Electrofringe with artist libi rose striegl (2019). Kim received a B.S. in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and M.F.A. from the New Genres Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is a Ph.D. Candidate in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance (IAWP) at the University of Colorado Boulder. https://heavyheavybreathing.com/48-Liat-Berdugo Thu, 12 Mar 2020 20:32:13 +0000 Heavy Breathing https://heavyheavybreathing.com/48-Liat-Berdugo March 23, 2020 Liat Berdugo: Internet Aerobics <img width="1634" height="919" width_o="1634" height_o="919" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04f802024ad876095e169a2570a711b824681185326b594ead3120fa1cb526f3/video-still-3-edited.JPG" data-mid="63402774" border="0" data-scale="72" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04f802024ad876095e169a2570a711b824681185326b594ead3120fa1cb526f3/video-still-3-edited.JPG" /> Filmed in a computer Lab, Internet Aerobics is a 20-minute aerobics workout routine about the internet, streaming to you through the internet. Aerobics props of long, blue ethernet cables are used, and hyperlink blue is celebrated as the color of online opportunity -- of links that have not yet been clicked. Aerobics moves embody multiple facets of online life, with packets of information speeding through wifi networks, routers, data centers, fiber optic cables -- often times at different speeds due to the lack of net neutrality laws. This workout routine is an invitation to you to sweat along in front of your own browser tab while thinking about and moving through the very makeup of the Internet, itself. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b917dee24dd9e577d8253c4cc8c5af3ecf601ad102569e08ac0e69b30255f62f/video-playing.jpg" data-mid="64359599" border="0" data-scale="75" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b917dee24dd9e577d8253c4cc8c5af3ecf601ad102569e08ac0e69b30255f62f/video-playing.jpg" /> <img width="1555" height="875" width_o="1555" height_o="875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f23b7e85b49e60b6878297cc234275c7e157a64c1df179ce3a4805ddbf19452a/video-still-5-edited.JPG" data-mid="63402776" border="0" data-scale="75" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f23b7e85b49e60b6878297cc234275c7e157a64c1df179ce3a4805ddbf19452a/video-still-5-edited.JPG" /> Instructions for participants: Most aerobics use some kind of prop, and for this routine you’re going to need some kind of long cord, ideally an ethernet cable you have stashed away in your closet from before the days of wifi. But any cord will due, like a cell phone charging cable, an extension cord, or heck -- unplug your computer and use that! Also, make sure you have some space in front of your computer to move your body around. This aerobics routine isn’t about getting the steps right -- it’s about moving and thinking with and through internet infrastructure. As long as you’re moving, you’re good. Suggested readings:&nbsp; Ingrid Burrington, “A Network of Fragments” (The Atlantic, 2015) Kyle Vanhemert, “A Field Guide to the Internet Infrastructure That Hides in Plain Sight” (Wired, 2015) John Urban, “A Few Things You May Not Have Known About Ethernet Cable Construction” (2014) Rus Shuler, “Protocol Stacks and Packets” from “How Does the Internet Work?” (2005) Electronic Frontier Foundation on Net Neutrality Cecilia Kang, “Justice Department Sues to Stop California Net Neutrality Law” (New York Times, 2018) Guide to some other Bay Area&nbsp; Internet Service Providers (ISPs) beside the big corporations Keith Shaw, “What is DNS and how does it work?” (Networkworld, 2018) Tom Riecken, “Learning ASCII Character Codes Is Surprisingly Easy If You Follow This Guide” (2018) <img width="1723" height="969" width_o="1723" height_o="969" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26fb673383f0f4aa21d837f4f56ca9df27edfe2ffbf44aa0d653676bb660bf97/video-still-1-edited.JPG" data-mid="63402772" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26fb673383f0f4aa21d837f4f56ca9df27edfe2ffbf44aa0d653676bb660bf97/video-still-1-edited.JPG" /> <img width="1634" height="919" width_o="1634" height_o="919" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04f802024ad876095e169a2570a711b824681185326b594ead3120fa1cb526f3/video-still-3-edited.JPG" data-mid="63402774" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04f802024ad876095e169a2570a711b824681185326b594ead3120fa1cb526f3/video-still-3-edited.JPG" /> BIOS Liat Berdugo is an artist, writer, and curator whose work focuses on embodiment and digitality, archive theory, and new economies. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals internationally, and she collaborates widely with individuals and archives. She is the co-founder and curator of the Bay Area’s Living Room Light Exchange, a monthly new media art salon; an artist-in-residence at the Internet Archive; and an assistant professor of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco. In her past life she was probably an aerobics instructor. Margaret McCarthy is a San Francisco-based artist whose work has received coverage on CNN, Mother Jones, and Fusion. She is an ensemble member and Co-Artistic Director of the SF Neo-Futurists. She has performed at SOMArts, Artists' Television Access, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Vanessa Hope Schneider is a writer, performer, and alum of the SF Neo-Futurists. She wants you to know that she knows about modern art. With infinite thanks to artists Elisabeth Nicula and Charlie Macquarie for their help with filming, and to Emily Martinez for brilliant graphics! Soundtrack credit: “World Wide Web” by Nick Borgen “DNS” by UV Protection “Internet Crash” by Promoe “Internet” by Tyskarna Fran Lund “Get Off the Internet” by Le Tigre “Computer Love” by Zapp &amp; Roger