Aerobic (instructions for breathing)

Air Quality betrays efforts to restore ecosystems, to stem rising fumes and the spotlights the way we are all implicated in collective cultures of consumption, of pollution and emissions. Even in forest scapes the air can be unbreathable, laden with the deadly exhalations of freeways and factories out of sight across the horizon. On earth, we share breath, we are made by it, reliant upon it, we are breath(l)ing(s).

In Merinda Davies installation Symbtiotic Marathon, a treadmill powers grow lights, asserting the immediate link between human effort, ecologic care and continued earthly survival defined by a mutual need shared by all species, to keep breathing.

Commissioned and published by Outer Space Gallery to accompany the installation ‘Aerobic (instructions for breathing)’ builds a world of shifting air quality, wondering at atmospheric justice, equity and interspecies exchange. How do we understand the history of breath and its possible futures?

You can read the full work here, and see more on Symbiotic Marathon here