Acknowledgements; Preface, David Cunningham; Introduction: In the Same Breath ? From the Black Box to the White Cube and Beyond; PART I: RESPIRATION, DISCOURSE AND THE QUESTION OF MEDIUM SPECIFICITY; 1. Deeptime: Breath and the Look of Non-Art; 2. The Durational Turn: Absorption and the Specificity of Temporality; Part II: (RE)PRESENTING BREATH; 3. Shortness of Breath: Beckett’s Breath in Context; 4. Emptied of Theatre: Breath and the Phenomenology of Disembodiment; Part III: THE EXHALED FIELD; 5. Waste of Breath: The Readymade as a Stage Set; 6. Intermedial Breath: Defying the Boundaries between Displaying and Staging; 7. Investigating the Materiality of Respiration in Different Media; Conclusion: The Afterlives of Breath – Breathe, Breathe Again . . . Breathe Better; Bibliography; Index.