Brea(d)th

IAS Residential Fellow Dr Pedro Oliveira delivers a seminar on their research - 

For my IAS Seminar I will present my work around Postura through my collaboration with Dr. Courtney Reed on the politics and poetics of breath. Conceived as a rehearsal for a performance-lecture, my contribution focuses on how breath composes the body with but also beyond the articulation of voice alone. I start from a personal experience of losing control of my breathing during a visa interview in Germany, and in which I felt my sense of self dissolve through. From there I will discuss how my understanding of Postura does not require regaining control but coming up with a sense of direction, an intention to arrive without colliding, and a desire not to be fully composed. Rather, through Postura the body is perceived as a site for micro and macro collaboration, for fragile alliances and collective shape-shifting, the vector for an ethics of expansion without the need for synthesis or resolution. 

Arrivals from 11:45 am for a 12:00 noon start. For those joining in-person, lunch will be served after the seminar from 1:00pm.

This event is hybrid format, please use the required booking button at the bottom of the page to choose either in-person or online attendance.
(Please note that in-person spaces are limited and booking is required, so we can manage numbers for catering and also the space in the seminar room)

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