Professor Darrin Martin is featured in the exhibition “Resistance & Respiration” at the Contemporary Calgary which takes inspiration from the scholarship of Jean-Thomas Tremblay and his book Breathing Aesthetics (2022). Trembley uses the work of contemporary artists such as Bob Flanagan to support his scholarship around the complexities of breathing. In her exhibition, curator Amanda Cachia expands on Tremblay’s work to incorporate other contemporary disabled artists who illustrate Tremblay’s “breathing aesthetics” in new form and function. ”Resistance & Respiration” investigates how contemporary disabled artists make breathing more dynamic and less so dangerous; how does breathing offer other physical, metaphorical and epistemological opportunities to recast the disabled body with a range of “benign respiratory variations”? The exhibition aims to imagine breathing, and breathlessness, as a productive cause for giddiness, a sensation for whirling, and a tendency for staggering. 

“Resistance & Respiration” is on view to April 14, 2024.