Katherine Smith
I am attempting to dream/imagine/create embodied connection with myself and with other bodies and the spaces around us, exploring intimacy, solidarity, multiplicity, grief, healing, resisting, the creating of new structures together: strong, soft, embodied sonic disruptions as ways of togethering and queering.
The work is inspired by and connected to many other people and settings, here are some: Aurora Levins Morales on grief and medicine in polycrisis | Mia Mingus on knowing ourselves and each other intimately as the first part of access work | Street Soundsystem’s sonic interventions | breathing together in spaces of protest, kinship | Tehching Hsieh talking to me about body rhythm | people at end-of-life who have accompanied me – breathed with me – as I’ve accompanied them, breathed with them | Lygia Clark’s body exercises | Lama Rod Owens on rage, love, broken-heartedness | queer song circles, singing in the dark, vocalising breath | Lygia Pape on collective performance as resistance | The Sonic Arts Research Unit and Patrick Farmer’s On Vibration | E Numbers on neuroqueering together alongside neurokinning with Joanna Grace | the gap between breaths, the space where one day I will likely stop breathing
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