Sunrise 5.55- sunset 18.36 Curated by Therese Maria Gram at Vennepunkt. Cph.
In the light of the previous months’ global events and recent weeks and days of intensification, where we are all challenged in our usual actions and in our everyday, you are invited to participate in Sophie Dupont’s performance Marking Breath, in the safety of your home or wherever you may be located.
During March 26th, from sunrise to sunset, Sophie Dupont will mark every one of her breaths on a copper plate. The work will be a record of this exact day and will be a celebration of what we all have in common: life and breath. As a tribute to those who have lost their lives and those affected in every way imaginable, Sophie Dupont will sit alone in silence and mark her breath all day long. For the first time, this performance, previously performed in Mexico, USA, Guatamala, Costa Rica, Norway, England, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic and in Sweden, will be live streamed over YouTube. We invite you to join and if so desired turning your cameras towards yourself and film your own markings of breath, in silence, on whatever material available. You can send the footage to us and we will post it on youtube as a global celebration of this day where we all drew our breaths, celebrated existence and joined together as a community.
Text & Photo by Therese Maria Gram
The Mind Marking Breath
Sunrise 5.55. Livestream from Copenhagen
It’s strange times
The virus has shot down the entire world
We cannot be close to each other anymore
We livestream into people’s home
#stayhome is the most popular hashtag now
One participant
Breathing
The virus attacks the breathing function and the lungs. Has killed tons of people all over the world
I breath and I mark
This time I make a musical score
I imagine the music the tones the rhythm
I look up and I see myself being livestreamed into the YouTube channel
I miss people around me
Real people real life
The waking up of a city
The world is on pause but we need to still breathe
No pause for the breath
Im alone and yet Im not
3 people follow me
I imagine some of my friends and I smile
It’s a bit more difficult to mark the score but so interesting – I think of cuneiform
Therese is checking the technology- all is working fine
I tap into foreverness and disappear in breathing
No choices to be made no action to do
Only marking my breathing
I feel a bit tense
The situation of the world is stressful in peculiar ways
The not knowing
The threat of other people
I mark
Breathing into the copper conducting music
Abstract
Connecting the vertical reality with the horizontal
Performing this work, I always ask myself if Im ready to die
I am
Death has been my companion since I lost my mother. I was 21.
Life death
It’s so strange
Awake sleep
Not the same
Life wants to live
So often we forget
Get caught up in our minds of difficulties and worries
My best friend would say; do I know? I invented this.
I think of stars – the universe
Expanding space
Looking from above from far away both in time and space
Back to my marking
Inhalation exhalation
Im a bit cold and I breath extra slow
It helps
Looking into the screen I imagine I see people maybe some are marking with me
Marking music, I begin humming
Its calming
Time stands still
We have plenty of time
Sun shines outside
I imagine that I go into the sun
Back to my marking
Music
I get terrible impatient
I feel like Plato in the grotto
Looking into the screen
It’s a bit like only a shadow of reality
This work – I think for a moment
Is the worst idea ever
I start humming again
Get hypnotised and wake up when Therese enters the room
2 meters distance
We all have to keep this because of the virus
Will this new reality ever come to an end?
It feels like a remote dream to be able to move freely
1 or 2 months ago is so hard to remember
Like we were other humans in another life
I relax into the new condition
Focusing on inhalation and exhalation
We all have a certain number of breaths
But we don’t know
The most significant important things in life we don’t know
Maybe we even don’t know the non-significant non-important things
But we fool ourselves to believe we do know
Or maybe it’s just me
People leave comments next to the livestream
I feel the present of others
It gives me new energy
I mark Humming smiling
18.34 sun has set