Circular Breathing is a personal breath recorder. By breathing and blowing into the mouthpiece, the viewer can record a breath pattern. After letting go of the button, the breath pattern plays back indefinitely, looping from start to finish. The piece amplifies the circular process of breathing into a circular recording. The work also mimics looped composition - the breath patterns are like break beats - the carefully chosen segments of sound that make up sampled music. With practice, viewers can also create seamless air loops. The breath impart to the fan a lifelike quality, which challenges viewers to contemplate the everyday equation of breath with life.
About the Breath Series
This series of works explore the recording, playback and amplification of breath through electromechanical processes. Each piece is a phenomenological experiment in pure body intelligence. How is the disembodied representation of breath still human? How is a breath truly ones own, if it can be precisely reproduced? What connects the airflow from one moment to the next as a perceived continuity we label as breath? What ownership do we have over breath, and how can we justly label a breath as my breath when it is an equal exchange - parts of ourselves continuously being exchanged for parts of our environment? What are the implications of imposing our bodies on technology rather than the inverted relationship we often experience? How small is the least measurable expression of life and personality?
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