Hau: Living Archive of Breath

Abstract

Our bodies, suffused with atmospheres, ancestors and chemical compounds produced by sunlight, are ‘meterontological' (Randerson 2018). We are the weather. And yet an apocalypse of the skies threatens the futures of our children. In this writing we propose a complex and nuanced alternative to the monolithic concept of the Anthropocene through intracultural and indigenous place-based performance incorporating sonic strata, choreographies of relation, and atmospheric research science. In contemplating an apocalypse of the skies, from one of the places in the world with the cleanest air (Lauder, Central Otago), LungSong - The Living Archives of Breath became a meeting place for a multiplicity of..