breathing commons — speculative scent lab

BREATHING COMMONS:
TUNING SCORES + SCENT PRAXIS

→ October 16, 6-8pm ET + October 17, 12-2pm ET + 3-5pm ET
→ Zoom

Registration coming soon!

Co-taught by margit galanter of Vivid Grove and agustine zegers of Speculative Scent Lab.

A 3-part, experimental session exploring the critical dimensions of breath and its odorants. Part para-pedagogical inquiry, part study group, part somatic play. These sessions are seasonally anchored, engaging the metal element of Fall and its association with the lungs—inviting our somas and alveoli into collective practice.

Margit will share praxis through the lens of Lisa Nelson's tuning scores—sensory-based compositional practices that come alive in application and collective motion. agustine will share avenues of critical engagement with scent as a methodology of proliferating solidarities. As a group, we will play and study together with ample time for individual exploration in place. Come to full workshop or a single session.

This class will be held as three virtual 2-hour modules throughout Friday and Saturday October 16-17, with recordings available asynchronously to all those who register.

● Lecture: Tuning Scores + Olfactory Commons | Friday October 16, 6-8pm

● Study: Collective Reading + Discussion | Saturday October 17, 12-2pm

● Practice: Breathwork + Somatics in Motion | Saturday October 17, 3-5pm

margit galanter is a movement educator, dance poet, and visionary cultural instigator living in the unceded, ancestral, sacred and stolen Ohlone land, also known as East Bay, California. Their unique practice helps people access the potency of movement. margit is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, qigong teacher, Taoist healing arts practitioner, and movement artist. Shx teaches workshops, works one-on-one with clients, performs, curates, and collaborates with practitioners from a wide range of media and disciplines, worldwide.

agustine zegers is a Chilean olfactory artist and student of atmospheric biopolitics. Their work attends to the tangled corporealities we share as inhabitants of Earth, offering forms of communion with ecological collapse at the scale of the molecule and breath. They have presented, scented, and exhibited at venues such as: The Venice Biennale, Dia:Chelsea, Sharjah Art Foundation, MAC Parque Forestal, Prairie, and the XE Institute. agustine directs Speculative Scent Lab and agar olfactory: sites of atmospheric and pedagogic olfactory experimentation.