Breath Variations — Ariana Martin

BREATH VARIATIONS
Christopher Steenson
14-16 May 2023
Flat Time House, London

Flat Time House & Royal College of Art, Curating Contemporary Art program partnership

Curated by Cindy He, Thomas Cury, Salomé Jacques, Romy Lagesse, Napas Mangklatanakul, Ariana Martin, Liyin Wang and Hyora Yang

Photos by Ariana Martin

Breath Variations is a new body of work created by Irish artist Christopher Steenson (b. 1992) for Flat Time House. Using sound, video, and transmission-based methodologies, Breath Variations explores the materiality of time – its permanence and evanescence – and the power that attention has over its transmission and state of matter. By manipulating and extending the sonic dimensions of Flat Time House, Steenson investigates the capacity of breath as a ‘least event’ – Latham’s term for the shortest departure from a state of nothingness – to punctuate linearities of time and space.

inhale, exhale (oi-io) (2023) broadcast system (synchronised to the high and low tide times of the North Sea), broadcast monitor. Infinite duration (or until the moon leaves the Earth's orbit).

John Latham Big Breather (1973) 6' 40'', colour, silent, originally shot on 16mm with Big Breather archival documents.

untitled (thesamethesamethesamethesame) (2023), 4', black and white, HD video (transferred to SD), broadcast monitor, 6-channel surround sound.

BREATH VARIATIONSChristopher Steenson14-16 May 2023Flat Time House, London

Flat Time House & Royal College of Art, Curating Contemporary Art program partnership

Curated by Cindy He, Thomas Cury, Salomé Jacques, Romy Lagesse, Napas Mangklatanakul, Ariana Martin, Liyin Wang and Hyora Yang

BREATH VARIATIONS
Christopher Steenson
14-16 May 2023
Flat Time House, London