Seeing Breathing - Jamie Denburg Habie
Jamie Denburg Habie ( Guatemala )
Seeing Breathing is an ongoing project that explores how breath- and movement-based visual practices can expand perception. Developed through multimedia works—including painting, guided meditation, and site-responsive performance—the project draws on neuroscience, meditation, and somatic practices to soften perceived boundaries between human and non-human systems.
Building on prior work in medical and care contexts, Denburg Habie extends these approaches during her residency at ZK/U. In 2025, in collaboration with a nursing school in Río Grande, México, she developed a permanent walking meditation sculpture, introducing somatic techniques as tools for nurses and their future patients. In a separate project, she created a painting for a neurology clinic in Miami designed to support nervous system regulation and ease patient anxiety in the waiting room.
Through engagement with local health organizations in Berlin, she will translate these methods into a new context, exploring how they can function as practical tools for wellbeing while developing new meditation scores centered on breath and movement.
