CONDUITS (performance piece)

The lungs provide the deepest conduit the outside environment has to the inside of our bodies. The universe will never get deeper inside of you, then when it enters your lungs. For my performance piece i wanted to explore and manipulate the intention and extension of atmospheric intake that we experience when breathing. Usually, an individual will intake atmosphere, witch will fill the lungs, then exhale atmosphere. The process, then ends, and is repeated over and over again,until death.
I wanted to tap into this process and prolong it by adding another person to it. During my piece, I take in atmosphere inside my lungs, exhale it not onto open space, but instead inside a balloon, and I share it with another pair of lungs, witch then intakes the atmosphere that has already been inside of me before finally releasing it into the open.
I found that inhaling air that has already entered another beings body was extremely intimate for I was receiving something that had traveled deep inside another body.
I used my boyfriend for the piece because I wanted it to be intimate ritual and I painted each of our balloons like ourselves, symbolizing the process of self creation( as we blew them up) and the consumption of each other as we exchange air.

-CONDUITS-CLICK TO SEE VIDEO HERE