Mattering a Hot Breath (2023)

Mattering a Hot Breath explores different ways of  materialising and making hot breath sense-able. The effects of raised temperatures are unevenly distributed and heat is experienced differently by different bodies - the weather is not ‘gorgeous’ for everyone. Suffering from both claustrophobia and heat-anxiety, how might understanding the relationship between the breath of my body and the breath of the planet help me keep my cool and re(air)condition for survival in increasingly off-beat seasons and prolonged high heat? For Soft Tissue I attend to the so-called ‘feminine’ senses of thermoception, inhalation, listening and tasting to make my breath matter.

Bodyrometers | Materials: thermochromatic paper, your exhaled breath

Weather Veins | Materials: ceramic flutter chips, custom fragrant poem, your blown breath

Gorgeous hot body | Materials: mirror, your exhaled breath, your drawings

Hot (Out) Takes | Materials: Audio scraps