{"id":1857,"date":"2019-08-10T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2025-07-09T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:00:28","slug":"deep-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/index.php\/2019\/08\/10\/deep-breath\/1857","title":{"rendered":"Deep Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Deep Breath <\/strong><\/em>
<\/em><\/strong>Shown at: Pamphilos, Athens (2019)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Film
Duration, 25′<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes, the finding of an antidote to the most basic and lethal form of amnesia, \u2018the forgetting of air\u2019, may require the undertaking of a deep dive. The site of descent is what it\u2019s really all about, isn\u2019t it? Where and when to dive into the thick of things?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somewhere in the depths where the Saronic Gulf meets the Aegean Sea, Raqs marks a fragment of an aphorism that has to do with forgetting. A phrase that is inscribed on to the sea floor and then filmed with the help of three divers, sign-posts an interval between the resting place of two shipwrecks; one ancient, another not. Together they might have transported a cargo of all the old and new things that defy memory, had they kept sailing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This submarine aide-memoire is as much about what it means to remember to breathe as it is about the forgetting of the fabric of life. It makes for the first underwater art work by Raqs and leaves a submarine epiphany in its wake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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