breathscape—2010 (turku)

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BREATHSCAPE
an inhabited installation

Concept, video, set, and performance: Emily Sweeney
Sound: Bilwa
Costume: Johanna Porola

March 5 – 12, 2010
SUMU Residency Space, Gallery Titanik, Tuku, FINLAND
On view March 5 – 12, 2010
Tuesday – Friday, 12:00—18:00
Saturday – Sunday, 12:00—16:00

Notes:
“Inhabited space transcends geometric space.” Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Breathscape is an inhabited installation that integrates body-sounds and videos with live performance to generate overlapping rhythms and feedback loops. It is a meditation space for breathing, for cultivating layers of presence.

It was winter in Finland in a small underground room with a cement floor. Ice formed on the outsides of the windows, which put one at eye-level with the frozen River Aura. There was a constant loud hum from the ventilation duct. The space was breathing. We invited people that we met in Turku to come and breathe in the completed installation, sometimes alone and sometimes in pairs. Our breathing was recorded and used during the times when we were inhabiting the space, which we did over 5 days, for 6 hours on each day. Guests entered the space, walked past Bilwa on their right, and stood or sat on the floor or on a bench directly in front of the installation space.