The Unbreathing
21x30cm – fusain sur papier

“What I am trying to achieve is to be what I am to the fullest –
black to the fullest, a musician to the fullest, and a homosexual to the fullest.”
Julius Eastman

JULIUS EASTMAN / THE UNBREATHING
OPENING BERLINER FESTSPIELE

“The Unbreathing” turns rhythm itself into a political subject. Uriel Barthélémi takes certain rhythmic scales derived from geopolitical and social analyses. The piece proposes a transversal, raw and radical way of reading the countless civilizational interrelations brought about by various colonisations and their ever-increasing destructive ingestion of imaginary worlds.

URIEL BARTHÉLÉMI
concept, performance, programming

HASSAN KHAN
text

ÉLISE BOUAL, JOSEPHA DE VAUTIBAULT, CLÉMENTINE POQUET
drawings

Uriel Barthélémi (Drums) – photo : Camille Blake

Uriel Barthélémi (Drums) – photo : Camille Blake