2025

Two performers passed between them a card with the word “breathe”. Only the performer holding the card was allowed to breathe. 

The performance included three 30-minute sessions. The artist performed the first session with Mary Jane Jacob, a pioneer in public, site-specific, and socially engaged art, and the second session with Shubo Xu, the artist’s husband. The final session was opened to the audience, who participated in rotation.

This work was created in response to the Breath Piece in Yoko Ono's Grapefruit, and presented as part of the Performing Grapefruit program in Ono’s retrospective Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

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Documentation by Xuemeng Li, Shuyuan Zhou, Xiaochen Eric Lu, and Qinyu Echo Huan.