Breathing Aesthetics Tremblay Jean-Thomas
Breathing Aesthetics Tremblay Jean-Thomas In Breathing Aesthetics Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the…
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Breathing Aesthetics Tremblay Jean-Thomas
In Breathing Aesthetics Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of air. They identify responses to the crisis in breathing in aesthetic practices ranging from the film work of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta to the disability diaries of Bob Flanagan, to the Black queer speculative fiction of Renee Gladman. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and necropolitical forces tied to the continuation of extractive capitalism, imperialism, and structural racism are embodied and experienced through respiration.
In readings of these and other minoritarian works of experimental film, endurance performance, ecopoetics, and cinema-vrit, Tremblay contends that articulations of survival now depend on the management and dispersal of respiratory hazards.