Holding Breath
participatory installation
2016 - 2017
2016 - 2017
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Hold your breath for as long as you can. By holding your breath, you are withholding the oxygen you are suppose to use. Divide that amount of time with 7.4 billion, the estimated number of people on earth. The result is the amount of nanoseconds worth of oxygen you donated to every single person on earth. |
Holding breath is a participatory artwork. This work started with the data collection from volunteers holding breath in front of a video camera and an installation that includes a video of people holding breath, a wall of donation certificates in the unit of nanoseconds and a calculation formula. It creates an experience of participating and looking though the numbers on the wall.
Based on a made-up theory that by holding your breath you withhold your use of oxygen and therefore donate it for someone else to use. In an era where human activity can change the state of the world and the environment. This artwork invites people to think of their action no matter how small and hesitate on the possibility of the theory whether the action of holding can be environmentally beneficial to the entire population of the world. And if it is how much can a few nanoseconds change.
Based on a made-up theory that by holding your breath you withhold your use of oxygen and therefore donate it for someone else to use. In an era where human activity can change the state of the world and the environment. This artwork invites people to think of their action no matter how small and hesitate on the possibility of the theory whether the action of holding can be environmentally beneficial to the entire population of the world. And if it is how much can a few nanoseconds change.