Social theorist Elizabeth Povinelli asks ‘are we extending the qualities and dynamics of one form that we believe existence takes (Life) onto the qualities and dynamics of all forms of existence? When we do this are we denying the ability of other forms (the not-Life not-Nonlife) to undefine, redefine, and define us?’ 

The Politics of Breath, A Pulse of Constant Becoming is an exhibition to interrogate the axial vector of late liberalism through the lens of the relationship between human, non-human and all-too-human structures to think of the myriad ways in which people are connected to a broader world of life, or how this fundamental connection changes what it might mean to be human. 

The deeper crises of late liberalism, environmental injustice, and communal tensions have convulsed us into consider enmeshments  in order to destabilise worlds with other worlds of thinking as well as to question which forms we think other forms with. The Politics of Breath, A Pulse of Constant Becoming brings together artistic works and research positions from across the world in an endeavour to blur the lines between natural life and critical life and evoke a phenomenology of the multitude in the hope to produce new territorialisations and broader entanglements.

Drawing from the continuity between beings and the environment, the works selected in this exhibition calibrate a new thinking around plant consciousness, critical philosophy and cultural theory.  The exhibitions cartography divides into four different modes of thought: 

Being; Late Liberalism and its reverberations on beyond the human.
Claiming Historiography (Story-telling);  how does one make relevant the collective memories, personal narratives, inner worlds, stories, and protagonists located within the margins of history? 
Becoming (Entanglements); the relationship between human and non-human, life and non-life
Enchantment (Healing); the process of undefining, defining and redefining