Breathing Room

Instant Places: Ian Birse and Laura Kavanaugh

March 15 – May 5, 2019

Artist in Residence: May 1 – 5, 2019

Artist Talk and Live Performance: May 2, 2019

Techno Talk Workshop: May 4, 2019

Ian Birse and Laura Kavanaugh (AKA Instant Places) use performances, generative installations, and telematic networks to create instant places of imagination and connection. The artists design software instruments that generate infinitely varied audio-visual works that transform host galleries into immersive environments.

The new intermedia installation, Breathing Room is a meditation on complementarity: from the inflow and outflow of breath, to reflections on relationships between shorelines and advancing/retreating ocean waves. Through multiple projections and a multi-speaker 3D audio field, the artists explain: “the generative machine creates a world in which encounters between frequencies of sound and spectra of colour create vibrations of difference, revealing a ‘third presence’ that floats between sound and vision.” Computers continually remake the sounds and visuals, guaranteeing that visitors will not see or hear the same thing twice.