Projects
Breathscapes
Breathscapes
Breathscapes is an immersive exhibition that explores breath as a symbiotic force, disrupting dominant regimes of visuality and expanding the boundaries of the real and the possible.
Breathscapes is an immersive exhibition where breath becomes both medium and method for collective attunement. Evolving from Your Rage is Sacred (maa)—a one-hour guided journey using game engines, 360° projection, and ambisonics to conjure ancestral rage for collective healing and empowerment—Breathscapes expands this research into a transformative experience merging VR, networked performance, and biosensitive technologies.
Developed through a collaborative, interdisciplinary and community-led process, the project explores breath as a site of both vulnerability and power—a shared resource shaped by histories of oppression, healing, and resistance. Drawing from an ontology of radical relationality that understands breath not merely as a biological function but as the very essence of reality—the life force that pulsates through all matter—Breathscapes repositions ancestral breathing practices as co-regulating technologies that synchronise bodies, technologies, and space.
Through this epistemic choreography, the project challenges the limits of perceptibility—particularly what is rendered visible through dominant ocular fields—and reveals the chiasmic relationship between breath and thought, breathing and worldbuilding. It fosters an “oceanic feeling”—a deep sense of interconnectedness in which the boundaries between self and environment dissolve—illuminating the entanglements of air, internal structures, and the spaces we inhabit.
By unsettling dominant modes of perception, Breathscapes invites audiences to attune to the subtle, invisible frequencies that shape collective existence—rendering palpable the elemental forces that centuries of colonial violence and politics of unbreathing have conditioned us to ignore and take for granted.
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£50,000
Aims of the Project
This transcultural project challenges dominant narratives in immersive arts by reimagining VR beyond Cartesian ocularcentrism—disrupting its inherently ableist and dissociative logics.
The technologies we use—most often unconsciously—shape our perception and experience through embedded worldviews. We believe VR emerges from a visual paradigm which cannot be disentangled from the anti-Black and extractive metaphysics of the Modern world. The question is: Whose imagination gets to shape our realities?
By testing the limitations of VR-associated equipment such as the Meta Quest 3, we aim to investigate how these devices shape marginalised people’s sense of embodiment and reality—as Big Tech pushes to make them ubiquitous. At a time when our attention and energy are relentlessly captured and commodified, Breathscapes subverts the tools of Racial Capitalism and Techno-feudalism, transforming them into life-affirming tools that reclaim marginalised communities’ agency and right to breathe.
Turning the exhibition into a space where the rhythms of life turn into one another, Breathscapes offers a vital moment of pause where audiences can rest and repose in the play of opposites, returning attention and energy home, to the body.
By centring decolonial, queer, and feminist perspectives in the field of extended reality (XR) technologies, Breathscapes proposes alternative models that empower communities that have historically been—and continue to be—excluded from the field. It challenges long-standing stereotypes these technologies perpetuate, expanding the scope of how we collectively imagine and engage with these tools.
How did they do that?
Building on Your Rage is Sacred (maa)—a mixed-reality (MR) performance in a 360° A/V space—Breathscapes expands into an immersive exhibition, an energetic, breathing ecosystem with its own rhythms.
This collaborative, community-led project unsettles the ocularcentric and binary logic of VR, decentering the eye/I through biosensitive wearables and networked performance.
The technologies we use are never neutral; their operational logic encodes implicit worldviews that shape our modes of existence.
Meet the artists
Clémentine Bedos
Lead artist
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Clémentine Bedos (they/them) is a UK-based transdisciplinary artist whose research-led practice explores the interrelated phenomena of mind, body, and consciousness within our present dominant modes of identity. Drawing from a diverse ancestry (Haitian, Gypsy, Kabyle, French), they create multi-sensual ritual performances that weave the diasporic, ancestral, and spiritual with extended reality (XR) as a creolised form of resistance. Using this mixed apparatus, they aim to disrupt hegemonic technoscientific regimes and decolonise modern(ist) relationship with images. Their work invites a reorientation of aesthetic focus inward—into the body, a divine instrument of perception and karmic archive—to reclaim inner visuality as a site of emancipation and bliss.
Recent transmedia projects include ‘Metamorph’ at Well Projects (Margate, 2022), Goldsmiths CCA (London, 2023), and Eastside Projects (Birmingham, 2024); ‘Your Rage is Sacred (maa)’ at Goldsmiths SIML (London, 2023), and FormaHQ (London, 2024); ‘hemi-sync of the heart’ at Acall Festival (London, 2023).
Eunjo Lee
Eunjo Lee is a South Korean artist and filmmaker based in London, working with 3D moving images. Her practice explores the interconnectedness of humans, nature, and objects, reinterpreting archetypal motifs to construct contemporary digital mythologies.
She primarily works with Unreal Engine, pushing its visual and technical boundaries to expand interactive world-building. Lee has held a solo exhibition at Niru Ratnam Gallery, where she is represented, and was commissioned for her first institutional solo show in 2025 as part of Goldsmiths CCA’s Episodes series. She graduated from the Ruskin MFA and won the Mansfield-Ruddock Prize in 2024.
Mohammed Rowe
Mohammed Rowe’s practice explores the intersection of sound, technology, sensory experiences, and community engagement to connect people and spaces. His work spans interactive installations, film, theatre, and Live performance, fostering immersive, multisensory experiences. Inspired by urban rhythms and found sounds, he crafts participatory soundscapes that transcend sensory boundaries, encouraging shared understanding and curiosity.
By merging physical and digital realms, Rowe engages audiences in innovative ways, responding to an ever-changing world. His work provokes reflection on the relationship between sound and human experience, cultivating deeper connections within diverse communities through creativity and technological exploration.
Seyi Adelekun
Seyi Adelekun is a multidisciplinary artist of Yoruba-Nigerian heritage. Their practice employs installation, performance, and sound to archive and disseminate indigenous knowledge and ecological wisdom. Exploring ecospirituality within environmental justice, they use regenerative design to world-build alternative realities.
Rooted in ecosomatics, their workshops integrate ritual, craft, embodied movement, and land-based practices to cultivate liberative spaces fostering interconnectedness and collective healing. Seyi has exhibited at South London Gallery, London Festival of Architecture, Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, and KLA ART ’24. They have led workshops for the Barbican, Idle Women, A New Direction and held residencies at Iniva and G.A.S. Foundation.
Marisa Di Monda
Marisa Di Monda is an Italian-Australian multidisciplinary artist based in London. Her practice spans textiles, electronics, and sound, exploring how structures of control shape cultural and political narratives. She explores the ways these systems can be hidden or unseen, questioning how knowledge is constructed within these paradigms.
Abhaya Rajani
Abhaya Rajani is a dalit queer feminist transdisciplinary artist, a trained architect and a cook, who investigates temporal (in)tangibilities to cognise anti-caste ancestral knowledge(s) through gestures of cooking, weavings, performances, somatics, and situational-scripts. Abhaya is the co-founder of Godhadi and Intersectional Healing Network.
They are a recipient of the Stanley Picker Fellowship at Kingston School of Art. Abhaya was a co-investigator on the research project, Touching on Caste configured ‘within dalit spores’ Godhadi exhibition. Currently, as an awardee of CHASE doctoral scholar, Abhaya is undertaking a practice-based PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London in Art dept.
ãssia ghendir
ãssia ghendir is a cross-disciplinary artist working at the convergence of voice, movement, and sound. Their practice weaves together geological soundscapes, devotional and lamentation vocal techniques, and somatic, non-verbal expressions of voice and body. ãssia’s work seeks to embody and channel potent, transformative and visceral forces, inviting audiences into immersive encounters rooted in vulnerability and transcendence.
Xuan
Xuan is a Singaporean-Malaysian textile artist, fabricator, and designer, currently based in London. Her practice(s) are rooted in negation and emptiness, in order to activate meditative environments that underscore the extreme labour-intensiveness of their making. Through weaving, perfumery, installation, and textual manipulation, her work focuses on material origin and her matrilineal femininity, seeing through processes in karmic cycles, memory, and spatio-temporal imaginations into being diaspora.
She is also co-producer and founder of Silkworm Collective, which currently holds a residency at Goldsmiths’ Centre of Contemporary Art (CCA) and is in ongoing collaboration with Woolwich and Greenwich Libraries.
Our project sends a powerful message—both locally and globally—that we, too, can seize these tools to reclaim our ancestors’ worldviews and our right to breathe.
