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Catch Your Breath @ Stockton Central Library
Breathing isn’t just a bodily function. It allows us to speak, laugh, and sing. It connects us to the outside world. It reflects our state of mind and can be consciously controlled. Breath has inspired art and literature. For many, ... Read more...
Find out more »Catch Your Breath @ Middlesbrough Library
Breathing isn’t just a bodily function. It allows us to speak, laugh, and sing. It connects us to the outside world. It reflects our state of mind and can be consciously controlled. Breath has inspired art and literature. For many, ... Read more...
Find out more »Catch Your Breath: a poetry workshop
Join poet Christy Ducker for a writing workshop inspired by Life of Breath’s Catch Your Breath exhibition. We will write in response to art and ideas from around the world, thinking about breath and respiratory health in new ways. Expect to play with breath in ... Read more...
Find out more »January 2020
Breathing Like a Girl
The conflict between objective and subject measurements of respiratory health has been a recurring theme of the Life of Breath project. The changing history of measuring breathlessness and the values we compare these measurements by can often indicate a disjunct ... Read more...
Find out more »The Book of Jo
The Book of Jo looks at what happens when life falls apart. How can we maintain hope when the worst happens? And why do bad things happen anyway? A woman faced with a rare and random terminal diagnosis sits in the ... Read more...
Find out more »Tobacco: Shape Shifting Substance from South America
What have been some of the relationships between tobacco and people, past and present and worldwide? What happens when these different relationships are brought into dialogue with one another? From its evolutionary origins and ‘deep history’ among indigenous communities in South ... Read more...
Find out more »February 2020
The Body Says It
In this talk, Life of Breath researcher and anthropologist Dr Alice Malpass will explore how bodily sensations of breathlessness come to be measured as a symptom. She describes the mis-match between the language used in research and clinics with the ... Read more...
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