Durch die Pandemie atmen: Mit Kate Blamire

In the organizer's words:

This workshop led by Kate Blamire explores breath, grief and connection in times of a pandemic as part of the Six Days of Love program accompanying Pallavi Paul's solo exhibition How Love Moves. In addition to shared breathing and physical exercises, the event will provide space for exchange between people who continue to live with the risks and realities of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, while public interest has long since turned to other issues.

The workshop draws on themes from the artistic practice of Pallavi Paul, who explores breath as a planetary language in her filmic and installation works. In an intimate setting, participants will have the opportunity to talk about what breath and community mean to them and to try out breathing and grounding exercises together. The workshop is also an invitation to deal with difficult feelings and get things off our chest to reconnect with hope, care and love and reflect on why we do what we do.

This workshop is limited to 15 people, with prior registration via email to events@gropiusbau.de. The workshop takes place in a large, closed room that is accessible for wheelchair users and whose windows can be opened. The offer is particularly welcome to people with chronic illnesses, disabilities or immune deficiencies, but is also aimed at anyone who decides to take health precautions for various reasons.

Please wear an FFP2 mask during the event and take a COVID-19 test before attending.

Kate Bl amire is a chronic illness respiratory therapist, filmmaker, poet and herbalist with a focus on the subversive and anti-capitalist nature of being sick. Kate Blamire writes about immunocompromised grief and explores community, connection/disconnection, healing and autonomy in relation to medical systems in the film Flare from 2023, which screens at international film festivals. Kate Blamire is also part of the collective Sick Comrade - a community-building project that creatively explores radical perspectives on disability.

Price information:

Free closed workshop with registration via events@gropiusbau.de.