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Laboratory: Breathing Spaces

Breathing Spaces introduces participants to an interdisciplinary exploration of breathwork and artistic expression as an experimental practice of drawing and performance.

Breathing, as both a biological necessity, conscious practice, and creative space, becomes an act of collective resistance. Drawing, as an expression of conscious breathing and body awareness, serves as a foundation for individual and collective well-being.

Through conscious breathwork practices, participants engage in drawing the air and breathing rhythms—an immersion where gesture and body transcribe breathing into visual form.

Participants explore breath as material and concept, learning to translate internal respiratory rhythms into poetic visual and gestural language:

conscious guided breathwork practices
drawing and artistic expression of breath through gesture
translation of breath rhythms into visual marks and traces
exploration of collective breathing as shared experience
creation of intimate and collective landscape cartographies through breath and movement

Salt Print Laboratory

Salt Print Experimental Laboratory introduce participants to one of the earliest photographic processes: the salt print, invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in the 1830s.

Through a hands-on experimental approach, participants learn how light, salt, and photosensitive chemistry interact with paper to create images.

The Experimental Laboratory explores the salt print process as both a photographic technique and an artistic investigation.

Participants will produce their own salt prints using historical photographic techniques developed in the 1830s, while observing how images slowly emerge from the paper fibers through exposure to light and manual development:

• preparation of salted paper
• coating with salts
• contact printing process
• light exposure
• fixing and washing the prints
• artistic experimentation with textures and materials

Cyanotype Laboratory

Cyanotype Experimental Laboratory introduces participants to one of the earliest photographic printing processes, invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842.

The process became particularly significant through the work of Anna Atkins, who used cyanotype to create some of the earliest books to combine photography and scientific botanical illustration.

Through a hands-on experimental approach, participants learn how light, iron-based chemistry, and paper interact to create images in the characteristic Prussian blue of the cyanotype.

The Experimental Laboratory explores the cyanotype process as both a photographic technique and an artistic investigation.

Participants will produce their own cyanotypes using historical photographic techniques, while experimenting with plants, objects, textures, transparencies, and other materials:

• preparation of cyanotype chemistry
• coating photosensitive paper
• composition using objects, specimens, and transparencies
• contact printing process
• light exposure
• washing and developing the prints
• artistic experimentation with layers, textures, shadows, and materials

Astro and Art Workshop

This workshop explores the intersection of astrology and contemporary art as a framework for creative investigation and conceptual thinking.

Each module focuses on a specific astrological archetype, planetary symbolism or cosmic theme and its manifestation in visual culture, visual arts, performance, language, and conceptual art.