Lise Autogena

"The act of breathing is a rhythm of the body that links our existence with everything else. In a shared experience, an exchange, we inhale and filter through our internal systems the expired air from others' breath. Breathing, therefore, constitutes a dialogue between interior and exterior movements, and a way of passing through the world."

This is a quote taken from Lise Autogena's 1996 'breathing productions' - "the first exploration into the act of breathing as a cultural phenomena, and the umbrella name for a series of events and investigations into the most fundamental condition for human life."

When looking through the documentation of the project, I had skimmed through the first quote and had not thought much of it. A couple weeks later I found myself remembering it and trying too figure out where the hell I had seen it. From then on I have gone back to it over again, as I feel it truly relates to my work. I see that 'shared experience' as the encounter that takes place when the work and the audiences 'breath' come together, interior and exterior. 

http://www.autogena.org/Breathing/home.html

At the bottom of this same webpage, there is another quote I have attached myself to -

"We are estranged from that with which we are most familiar" (Hiraclitus, Fifth century BC) 

Breath, in my case is the one subject I want to accentuate at least for a moment and create an experience with.