Breathing is Free: 12,756.3 – Canberra performance

Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba recently completed a stage of his ongoing project, Breathing is Free: 12,756.3 in Canberra, ACT. The performance was part of am ongoing project in which the artist aims to run the diameter of the Earth, 12,756.3 km, in a series of performances that will be documented in still and video photography, along with topographical maps that track the artist’s movement via GPS.

Nguyen-Hatsushiba’s performance in Canberra was commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre for the final installment of Edge of Elsewhere, 2012.

Breathing is Free: 12,756.3 – Canberra

Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Breathing is Free: 12,756.3 - Sendai, 2011, single-channel digital video, 19:10, courtesy the artist nd Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

We are excited to announce that Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba will be undertaking a leg of his ongoing project, Breathing is Free: 12,756.3, in Canberra this October for the Edge of Elsewhere exhibition.

An ongoing project that will last approximately 8 years, Breathing is Free: 12,756.3 is the most recent incarnation of Nguyen-Hatsushiba’s ‘Memorial Project’ series. In this project the artist is attempting to run the diamater of the earth (12,756.3 km). This distance will be accumulated as Nguyen-Hatsushiba runs through cities in various countries, such as Canberra.

Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba

Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Breathing is Free: 12,756.3 – Guangzhou (2011) single channel digital video, 19:10, courtesy the artist and Mizuma Art Gallery,Tokyo and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba was born in Tokyo. He earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art after receiving his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has had solo exhibitions at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome; and the Kunsthalle Wien, Austria. His work has been included in numerous biennials, including the Shanghai Biennale, the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial, an the São Paulo Biennale. He currently lives in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietname. Nguyen-Hatsushiba’s films explore Vietnamese ‘boat people’ after the Vietnam War.