BLOW UP DESCRIPTION
The installation comprises two devices. The first is a rectangular array of twelve small impellers, which stand on a table on one side of the gallery. This small input device is electronically link to a large wall of twelve electric fans. The tabletop impellers are spatially and temporarily synchronized to the fans in the wall. When a “sender” blows into the first device, “receivers” experience the magnified breathing patterns over their entire bodies. When “sender” stop blowing, the wall continue to play back the most recent breathing pattern, captured in an amplified loop, until someone inspire a new pattern.
Blow Up records, amplifies, and projects human breath into a room-sized field of wind. Blow Up’s simultaneous processes of recording, translation and amplification is meant to increase the breath’s salience and legibility, while detaching the breath from the body that allegedly produced it.
The process of observing this translation and translocation of respitory activity may prompt the sender to consider the connection between one’s person and the air it exchanges and more broadly, the existence of any self independent of the air signalling its presence.
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