Breathe-Up
Breathe Up is an audio-visual video installation. The video features an extreme close up of the performer running through a ‘breathe-up’ exercise common to freedivers and apneists prior to dives and breath-holding attempts. The sounds from the video emulate the gasps, hissing, and hollow, choked sounds created by divers performing the exercise and considers the tenuous relationship between breath and body.
Sub-, Suc-, Suf-, Sug-, Sup-, Sur-
Sub-, Suc-, Suf-, Sug-, Sup-, Sur- engages with psychological elements of claustrophobia surrounding water and breath holding. The video installation plays on fear, taking power from the viewer and suspending their breath as their next moment of surfacing is uncertain, and the question of how long, or how much longer one can hold their breath comes to the forefront. Moments above the surface are brief and the water continually pushes the vantage point to what is below, trapping the viewer under.