Breath · SS-B · live instrument
Skip to the exhibition ↓Six breaths a minute
In 5 s · Out 5 s
Your breath
Breath 0 of 3
Breathe with the lab.Then come in.
Press and hold the sphere as you breathe in. Let go as you breathe out. Three slow breaths open the exhibition.
Why breath
Breath is the one part of the nervous system we can steer.
Slow the breath and the body follows. So we build spaces, objects and installations that invite the breath to slow, through movement, light, air and sound. Breath is one of ten systems in our research; it is the one you can feel on this page.
Breath regulation inside the membrane · RCA Summer Show 2026
The exhibition
2–5 July 2026 · Darwin Building, Kensington
BREATHE
An installation that breathes at six breaths a minute and invites the body to follow. Visitors hummed into it; 28 seconds of breath opened a screen of light.
Movement inside the membrane
Reaching into the membrane
How BREATHE works
The prototypes · 5 works
From the gallery into the home.
Nature's Call · Milan
A veiled figure sits completely still on a Milan pavement while the city hurries past. A performative public work about stillness, and how rarely we allow it.
Breath is one system. There are nine more.
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