Topography of Breath is a Iive act on the corporeality of exhaustion.
Taking its point of reference from Toh’s interest in the individual body and its lived experience, Topography of Breath is an inquiry into the lived body as a performative event. The work comprises a choreographed movement piece and an installation of 156 self-portraits of the artist’s body, the latter functioning as a corporeal parameter against which a regime of gestures are performed. By working on, with and about the tactile body, Toh seeks strategies beyond the traditional paradigms of narrative in theatre or representational gestures in dance, reducing the human body to raw physical processes of breath, muscularity and movement.
New commission by Asian Film Archive for State of Motion: Rushed of Time (2020).
Taking its point of reference from Toh’s interest in the individual body and its lived experience, Topography of Breath is an inquiry into the lived body as a performative event. The work comprises a choreographed movement piece and an installation of 156 self-portraits of the artist’s body, the latter functioning as a corporeal parameter against which a regime of gestures are performed. By working on, with and about the tactile body, Toh seeks strategies beyond the traditional paradigms of narrative in theatre or representational gestures in dance, reducing the human body to raw physical processes of breath, muscularity and movement.
New commission by Asian Film Archive for State of Motion: Rushed of Time (2020).
