Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski
Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski

Respire (Liverpool)

For Respire (Liverpool) (2023), an immersive three-screen video installation, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński collaborated with musicians, singers, athletes, activists, and breathwork practitioners from Liverpool—people whose practice is shaped by a specific relationship to breath and breathing. Keep On Keepin’ On (for Nile) (2023), the video installation's soundscape, was conceived with sound artist and longtime collaborator Bassano Bonelli Bassano and is inspired by Curtis Mayfield’s Keep On Keeping On (1971). Here, individual and collective breathing are highlighted as acts of expansion and spatial assertion, producing an insistent rhythm of survival in a world where Black breath remains precarious.

Since its debut at the Liverpool Biennial 2023, Respire (Liverpool) has been presented at Phileas – The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin, and Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich.

Respire (Liverpool) & Keep On, Keepin' On (for Nile)
3-screen video installation, 16:9, color, no sound, 16 min loop
4-Channel Sound Installation, 16 min loop

• Directing & Camera: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
• Community of the Breathing:
Brayden, Christina Adamu, Ngunan Adamu, Perri Alleyne-Hughes, Elliss Eyo-Thompson, Bea Freeman, Nina Lipman, David Loy, Pascale, Michelle Peterkin-Walker, Hellen Songa, Heather Joy Tomlinson
• Light & Technical Support: Carl Davies
• Dramaturgy & Editing: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
• Editing Assistance: Nick Prokesch
• Sound recording, composition & mixing: Bassano Bonelli Bassano
• Color grading: Sunanda Mesquita & Nick Prokesch
• Make up: Nathalie Crawford
• Production: Aimee Harrison & Rudi Hart

Produced with the support of Phileas - Austrian Office for Contemporary Art and Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS).

For Respire (Liverpool) (2023), an immersive three-screen video installation, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński collaborated with musicians, singers, athletes, activists, and breathwork practitioners from Liverpool—people whose practice is shaped by a specific relationship to breath and breathing. Keep On Keepin’ On (for Nile) (2023), the video installation's soundscape, was conceived with sound artist and longtime collaborator Bassano Bonelli Bassano and is inspired by Curtis Mayfield’s Keep On Keeping On (1971). Here, individual and collective breathing are highlighted as acts of expansion and spatial assertion, producing an insistent rhythm of survival in a world where Black breath remains precarious.

Since its debut at the Liverpool Biennial 2023, Respire (Liverpool) has been presented at Phileas – The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin, and Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich.

Respire (Liverpool) & Keep On, Keepin' On (for Nile)
3-screen video installation, 16:9, color, no sound, 16 min loop
4-Channel Sound Installation, 16 min loop

• Directing & Camera: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
• Community of the Breathing:
Brayden, Christina Adamu, Ngunan Adamu, Perri Alleyne-Hughes, Elliss Eyo-Thompson, Bea Freeman, Nina Lipman, David Loy, Pascale, Michelle Peterkin-Walker, Hellen Songa, Heather Joy Tomlinson
• Light & Technical Support: Carl Davies
• Dramaturgy & Editing: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
• Editing Assistance: Nick Prokesch
• Sound recording, composition & mixing: Bassano Bonelli Bassano
• Color grading: Sunanda Mesquita & Nick Prokesch
• Make up: Nathalie Crawford
• Production: Aimee Harrison & Rudi Hart

Produced with the support of Phileas - Austrian Office for Contemporary Art and Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS).