Taller Alturas
Los Angeles
21 June 2023

Presented by
Praxinoscope

Performed by
Sophie Dupont
Emji Saint Spero
Jessica Dillon

Sound by
John Dawson
Nikki Ochoa

Praxinoscope presents Performing Breath, an interactive, immersive, and participatory happening by internationally-acclaimed artist Sophie Dupont, in collaboration with artists Emji Saint Spero and Jessica Dillon.

Presenting during the last two hours of the longest day of the year, this Summer Solstice happening is an invitation to examine the ritualistic repetition of the most basic expression of life: the breath.

Through several previous iterations of performing breath, Dupont’s work has been evolving to take the form of “Breath Activism”—grounded in Audre Lorde’s concepts, proposed in her essay, “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” where Lorde states: “I feel, therefore I am free.”

With the breath as the starting point for Dupont’s performances, she reduces the distance between art and life—as well as artist and audience, inviting participants “to take back our breath and claim the breath for ourselves [as] an act of resistance.”