Arthur’s ‘labouring of the lungs’ in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King
Elsa Hammond is a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol, working on breath and death in the poetry of…
breathing
Metaphysics and heavy breathing (or Tippett’s Fourth Symphony)
How can art (in this case, music) illuminate human experience? Here project collaborator Toby Young contemplates Tippett’s Symphony No. 4 (1977), a ‘birth…
Metaphysics and Heavy Breathing (or Tippett’s Fourth Symphony)
Composer Toby Young writes: Tippett’s Fourth Symphony is a vast and complex tone poem, concerned with life, death and the…
The philosophical role of illness – and how it can teach us to live reflectively
Principle Investigator on the Life of Breath and professor of philosophy Havi Carel will be giving her inaugural lecture on ‘The…
Singing for Breathing
Vocal coach, community choir and workshop leader and music therapist Phoene Cave writes: In 2008 I answered an advertisement for…
The breath between: art, film, mortality, and AIR
Jenny Chamarette (writer, curator and film scholar and Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London), and Anna…
Drawing Breath
Throughout 2016, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal will feature the work of Jayne Wilton, visual artist and Life of Breath project…
With bated breath: diagnosis of respiratory illness
In this essay, senior investigator Havi Carel recounts her experience of being diagnosed with a rare respiratory condition as a…
Who was chasing him?
Jess Farr-Cox, Life of Breath Project Manager (Bristol) and her father David Scoins, lifelong runner (green vest, above), sometime sports…
‘I need security to survive’
Kate Binnie, yoga teacher and music therapist, shares a memory of a hospice patient: Paula wakes early every day and…
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