Breath: Reciprocities Without Words. Music, sound and videoart as communication paths on migration processes

Abstract

[EN] Breath was created during a research stay at Social Sciences department in Roskilde University in Denmark. The challenge was to find ways to disseminate knowledge through artistic resources in a research project under migration topic.European socio-cultural contexts nowadays are established as landscapes of diversity, platforms of social interaction where the confluence of perspectives of diverse cultures are gradually modified, giving rise to new expressive parameters of social groups. This environment allows a dialogue between different cultural musical manifestations and the approaches to the sound phenomenon that each one establishes. These cultural platforms are laboratories par excellence of the transculturation as a place where the exchange of musical identities is more easily produced. They accept (or should accept) diversity not as exoticism or threatening otherness but as a possibility of one's own identity.Under these circumstances, music plays a definitive and fundamental role constituting a purposeful and peaceful way of interaction between different cultural groups. Furthermore, music allows the development of a dialogue in the rethinking process of the collective, related to the individual.Breath is an approach to music in a social perspective, connecting people from different genders, generations and cultures that didn´t know each other before. Together we created a communication path without words, where breath is the guideline for the improvised music. We were all synchronized in a co-creative work. The photos and drawings that appears on the video where chosen and made by the participants afterwards, reflecting what they felt during the experience. Besides, Breath is an interactive work that invites you to participate in it with your own breath. Through a video installation, Breath pretends to arouse our empathy towards an understanding of the other. It aims to visualize our common aspects as humans and living beings, focusing on an existing and basic one: breathing reciprocity.