BREATHING VOLUME
"4 + 4 Days in Motion" Festival
Curator: Markéta Černá
Prague, Czech Republic, 2015
Mindfulness exhibition,
Piknic cultural space
Curator: Woo Jung Choi
Seoul, South Korea, 2020
Haus der Vorstellung
Curator: Jaana Prüss
Berlin, Germany, 2008
BREATHING VOLUME is an installation that combines dynamic architecture and immersive sound design. It plays with the notion of space within an audiovisual context. Upon entering, visitors are embraced by the installation’s breathing walls, which continuously expand, contract and change their physical volume over five-minute intervals, mimicking the sensation of being inside a living organism. Four synchronised ventilators trigger the dynamics of the sound matrix and the movement of the walls, following the canon of human lungs. Subwoofers placed inside transform the pulsing bass frequencies into the soul of the organism.
BREATHING VOLUME unexpectedly shifts the focus from what surrounds us to what is immediate, here and now, offering a distorted reflection on our relationship with space, its distance and extension.
A Plastique Fantastique project in cooperation with Marco Barotti.
Artists
Marco Canevacci and Yena Young (Plastique Fantastique)
Marco Barotti
Concept
Marco Canevacci, Marco Barotti, Markus Wüste, Lorenzo Brusci, Yena Young
Plastique Fantastique Team
Hugo Luque, Stephanie Grönnert, Simone Serlenga
Special Thanks
Bumsang Kim, Yuri Cho, Seung Jo Lee, the IN SITU network
