Workshop | Pallavi Paul: How Love Moves
Breathing Through the Pandemic
With Kate Blamire
Everything is Still Damp (series), screenprint on sand paper, 2024 © Pallavi Paul
This workshop held by Kate Blamire explores breath, grief and connection in times of pandemic as part of the public programme Six Days of Love accompanying Pallavi Paul’s solo exhibition How Love Moves. In addition to breathing and grounding exercises, it gives space to share experiences in a small group of people who are still facing the risks of living within the realities of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic while public interest has long been directed towards other topics.
The workshop connects to themes of Pallavi Paul’s artistic practice exploring the breath as a planetary language in her cinematic and installative work. In an intimate surrounding, participants have the chance to talk about what breath and community means to them and practice breathing and grounding exercises together. This session is also an invitation to sit with difficult feelings and get things off the chest while reconnecting to hope, care and love, by remembering why we do what we do.
Kate Blamire is a chronically sick breathwork facilitator, filmmaker, poet and community herbalist whose work focuses on the subversive and anti-capitalist nature of sickness. They write on immunocompromised grief and their recent film Flare (2023) – which is touring film festivals internationally – explores community, connection/disconnection, healing and finding autonomy in the face of medical systems. Kate Blamire is also part of the Sick Comrade collective – a community building project which deals creatively with radical perspectives on disability.