Darkness Visible to be screened at Kings Place....

Parallels: Text and Breath Update

This week saw the opening of Parallels: Text and Breath in Brunel Library's Research Commons. The event created a dialogue between my work on capturing human breath and Brunel's special collection.  It was a great opportunity to use this wonderful space and make further connections across the university.
Thank you to everyone who came to see the exhibition, and especially those who came to see and then brought back their departments!!

A major thank you to Ann Cummings, Lorna Mitchell and Rob Wannerton who initiated the project and to Isabella Smith for her curation of the exhibition and also to Sophia Smith for capturing the images below. Thanks also to Peter for organising refreshments and helium expertise! Thanks also to Reza for his assistance with the installation and to Paula for looking after the works during the show.

Parallels: Text and Breath

Much knitting of periodicals has been done over the summer as I have worked towards the exhibition in Brunel Research Commons opening on 19th September. The exhibition is entitled Parallels, Text and Breath and is curated by Isabella Smith.

Parallels: Breath & Text is the new exhibition by Brunel University School of Engineering and Design's Artist in Residence Jayne Wilton. Jayne's practice investigates the breath as a fundamental unit of exchange between people and their environments. The work produced during Jayne Wilton's residency incorporates a host of innovative scientific techniques such as Schlieren imaging, rapid prototype printing and digital holography which allow the viewer to re-experience the often over-looked breath in visual and tangible forms. This new work conceived of collaborations with Brunel staff, primarily Professor Peter Hobson, is shown alongside previous breath works which relate to the potential of the breath to communicate directly or indirectly. Parallels: Breath & Text is situated in the Research Commons of the University Library, encouraging parallels between Wilton's art works, which frequently act as records of breaths, and the library's texts, which can also be considered a collection of breaths transmuted into written form. The serial nature of collections is also paralleled in Jayne's series of works made of knitted academic journals and in her series of breath works, where each piece appears similar and yet each is different and unique. 

Parallels: Breath & Text is the new exhibition by Brunel's Artist in Residence Jayne Wilton. Find it in the Research Commons on the third floor of the Library, from 5pm on Wednesday the 19^th until Friday the 21^st of September 2012.

Darkness Visible

Another film that I collaborated with Peter Hobson, Akram Khan and Peter Wiegold on over the summer made visible cosmic rays, an expression which poetically could be viewed as the spent breath of the Universe.  This film was presented to a conference of Particle Physicists in Berlin on 8th August at the conference to celebrate 100 years of the discovery of cosmic rays by Victor Hess. We also presented this poster which explains more about the project:

I came into this world with a beautiful wound

I was delighted to collaborate with Akram Khan and Peter Wiegold in a filmic response to Will Self's Digital book project for London Review of Books. The following link will take you to the full site:

http://thespace.lrb.co.uk/article/i-came-into-the-world-with-a-beautiful-wound/

Here are some stills from the film and animation: