Black Corporeal is an ongoing series of work by Julianknxx. It is a critical examination on the relationship between materiality, and the black psyche. Exploring the idea that our ability to breathe – an act that is continuously challenged by everything from air pollution, stress and anxiety and societal prejudice – is more than our lungs’ ability to take in air, but a reflection of the way we live individually and together. Black Corporeal engages with both the physical and metaphysical aspects of breathing and asks if we can reposition ourselves through the extrinsic, the creation of black structures and realities that allow us to breathe, freely. 

This performance will culminate in a residency in Lisbon and integrated in the project Chorus’ in Rememory of Flight that will be co-produced by the The Barbican Centre and Wetransfer in collaboration with seven European cities. This Lisbon episode is coproduced by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (CAM and Equity Programme) in collaboration with Festival Iminente. Other European cities are Antwerp, Barcelona, Hamburg, Liverpool, Marseille, and Rotterdam.