Southerly
Southerly is a performative exhibition program by The Landless Collective spanning moving image, live performance, and installation. It brings breath, material, and bodily rhythm into one shared environment.
A film and movement art / dance performance that uses breath to evoke anxiety. Through close interaction between dancer and sculpture, the work traces psychological motion through build-up and release—making an internal rhythm tangible through movement, material, and sound.
Custom sound palette built from field research gathered by the choreographer and sculptor. The score was developed iteratively alongside the work, with sound decisions responding to physical, visual, and material changes. Instead of using literal breath recordings, the music suggests breath and anxiety through pacing, tension, silence, micro-dynamics, and texture, and provides clear cues for timing, intensity, and transitions.
Breath in Sight is a mixed-media sculpture that treats breath as an object of attention. Scale and a live monitor pull an internal act into the public field—breath becomes something you look at, measure, and sit with. The work centers on that shift in perception: when breath is observed, it carries a different kind of weight, and the body’s smallest changes start to read as tension, vulnerability, and finiteness.
Designed a restrained sound environment that supports the viewer’s attention without narrating the action. The sound is built around proximity, distance, and interruption—minimal layers and controlled quiet that track shifts in the body’s state without using literal breath. The result sharpens focus, stretches time, and makes small movements feel more present and psychologically charged.