Chorus of Lungs with Maria Lantin, 2013

2-channel video projection, occupies five square meters.
22 minute cycle
Interactive and stereoscopic 3D (optical polarized 3D), spatial audio)
Custom-built computer system and a Kinect for each projection screen, 2.7 meters x 1.5 meters; the two screens 7.6 meters apart, face each other; speaker system.

Stereoscopic 3D video is mapped onto a chorus of breathing lungs in one projection, and a chorus of drawn lungs hover in front of the viewer in the other projection. The chorus opens and closes in response to an opening and closing of the participant’s arms (distance between hands).

Pelicans soar through the sky, mapped onto and behind the lungs. The work explores elements of the social body through sound and image spatialization of voices, breath and breathing.

Chorus of Lungs is a meditative exploration of inner and outer spaces, inviting the viewers to participate in the installation by moving their arms upwards and out, as if their arms were wings.  The sounds of breathing, along with images of human lungs, float in a shared space with the viewer.  Pelicans are mapped onto the interior lung spaces of the body, soaring through a deep blue sky. Shot on the Bow River, in Alberta, the pelicans made a remarkable appearance after the farmers stopped using DDT and now are a familiar part of the landscape.