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Hyperbaric-Hypobaric: Undine’s Curse, film pamphlet. 2007.

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric:  Nicole Renard in the Grotto Verde in Northern Italy; film still from Undine’s Curse, 2007.  See film

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric:  Nicole Renard with a Lincordian  during filming, 2007.

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric:  (L) The ascension in Undine’s Curse with György Ligeti’s Atmosphères (1961) scored for multiple accordions. (R) The effects of Hypoxia.  2007.

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric:  Divers clad in Galeazzi suits drawing the Hyperbaric Chamber out of the Hudson River, during filming of Undine’s Curse. 2007.

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric:  Nicole Renard being decompressed in a barn in Garrison, NY.  2007.

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric:  Installation view Hyperbaric–Hypobaric, Alexander and Bonin, New York. 2008.

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric:  Hyperbaric Chamber with a live sponge contained in a Bubble Chamber. 2009

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric:  Bubble Chamber made by singing a passage from Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria into a soap bubble and then modeling it from the photographic evidence. 2008

Hypobaric-Hyperbaric: Installation view of the Evolutionary Links and Lincordion.  2008

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric, The Cabinet of Evolutionary Links: A painted vitrine displaying thirty printed boxes each holding a tin can, salt, an engraved link and an information card describing thirty specimens with unusual forms of respiration. 2008. See Editions

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric, The Cabinet of Evolutionary Links, Thirty printed boxes each holding a tin can, salt, an engraved link and an information card describing thirty specimens with unusual forms of respiration.  2008.  See Editions

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric:  Lincordian, a translucent accordion tuned to a special pitch for the recording of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. 2007.  See Editions

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric:  A special edition: the Lincordian mounted atop on a resin-bonded salt crystal. 2007. Courtesy Guido Costa Projects, Turin.  See Editions

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric:  A miniature Hypobaric Chamber containing a taxidermied canary, a pressure sensitive sound board is installed in the bird.  2007.

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric:  Drawing of the Hyperbaric–Hypobaric atmospheric suit; polycarbonate sheet, 72 x 42 in. 2009

Hyperbaric–Hypobaric, pigment print 53 x 35 in., 2008. See Prints

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ABOUT HYPERBARIC–HYPOBARIC (2006–2008)

 

Hyperbaric–Hypobaric was conceived to investigate a poetic metaphor, an examination of the way memory is altered by extremes of atmospheric pressure. Two states occur: in a hypobaric (low pressure) state euphoria occurs prior to unconsciousness; in a hyperbaric (high pressure) state the emotional quality is harder to determine, but evidence suggests anxiety.

 

The atmospheric suit is the key to existing between these two states; it is a prophylactic, a contemporary knight’s armor. This suit in the installation is a composite construction, combining designs from the early twentieth century, which collectively achieved joints unaffected by extreme pressure: a suit that can descend a thousand feet into the ocean, but also beyond the stratosphere. A film, Undine’s Curse, unites the opposite and complementary aspects of this project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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