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Breathe (detail of installation at the davey drill complex december 2007)
plastic trash bags in multiple stages inflation, video, sound, and air
150, 55 gallon black trash bags inflated with air, 50 at a time every 24 hours for three days filling half of a room, and allowed to deflate at the will of the bag.
a life size video of a closeup of the artists mouth and nose while holding his breathe as long as he possibly can before his lack of oxygen induced twitching turns into a life grasping explosionous inhale of oxygen. this loops and occupys the second half of the room, hanging on the opposite wall and facing the slowly exhaling bags.
the room is silent and dark exept for the light of the video, untill every minute and a half when the explosion of the artists breath is amplified at high volume gradually intimidating the the bags into collapse.