Out of Breath by Caterina Albano

Out of Breath by Caterina Albano

Explores the intrinsic relation of life to air, and breathing, through contemporary art In Out of Breath, Caterina Albano examines the cultural significance of breath and air to a wide array of forces in our midst, including economy, politics, infection, and ecological violence. Through a consideration of recent art practices and projects, including the dance project Breath Catalogue, which makes visible the breathing patterns of dancers, and Forensic Architecture’s Cloud Studies video, which investigates eight different kinds of clouds from airstrikes to herbicides to tear gas, Albano focuses on breath as both an intuitive process and a conveyer of meanings. Conceived in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and systemic inequalities that it has laid bare, Out of Breath shows the potential of artistic practices to mobilize affect as a form of cultural and political critique. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

Caterina Albano is reader in visual culture and science at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. She is author of Memory, Forgetting, and the Moving Image and Fear and Art in the Contemporary World.

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ISBN 13	9781517913557
ISBN 10	1517913551
Title	Out of Breath
Author	Caterina Albano
Series	Forerunners: Ideas First
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Minnesota Press
Year published	2022-04-05
Number of pages	96
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