当呼吸可以言语 Breathing as Language Original

WHEN BREATH SPEAKS

Yongjian Su × Ruiyun Ba

「If we communicated like animals」

Dimension: 700cm×550cm×300cm

Year: 2022

Material: Microphone & speaker, acrylic helmet, white cloth

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What's left of our face-to-face relationship today?

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The work creates a field of interaction, attempting to strip away our existing, extremely efficient language system, by using breath to trigger the oscillation of the tentacles on the top of the head to make sounds, reverting animal communication way to human beings in order to create new face-to-face relationships. Here, people's previous experience of speech is suspended, and all the symbols of existing language are reduced to signals, which tend to be impoverished and animal-like. The work attempts to ask: As a member of nature, how do we redefine the relationship of connection with each other?

Link：https://www.yongjiansu.com/when-breath-speaks