Respirar Juntxs

Respirar Juntxs is a project that emerged in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of the collaborative research network SUS_NET, initiated at the University of Leeds, England. The project attempts to rethink the occupation of public space in the context of the health emergency. Following Roberto Esposito's ideas about the immunity-community duality, the project proposes the creation of convivial devices that allow for new ways of collectively inhabiting the city. As part of a quest to break with common imaginaries of technology, the device adopts the figure of the gas mask, normally associated with contexts of war or violence, and gives it new meaning through its hybridization with aesthetics inspired by contemporary Latin American culture. As a participatory project, the device was designed for replicability, which the project puts into practice through art-education pedagogical processes in which the device becomes a trigger for engaging participants in dialogue with ideas about biopolitics, conviviality, community, and the right to the city.