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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: the ascension in Undine’s Curse with György Ligeti’s Atmosphères (1961) scored for multiple accordions, 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 following decompression in a barn in Garrison, NY, 2007.

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

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric: the Hyperbaric Chamber with a live sponge in the Bubble Chamber, 2008.

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric: the 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 documentation, 2008.

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

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric, The Cabinet of Evolutionary Links: a vitrine displaying thirty printed boxes each holding a metal box, 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: a vitrine displaying thirty printed boxes each holding a metal box, 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 specific pitch for the recording of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, 2007. See Editions

Hyperbaric-Hypobaric: the Lincordian mounted atop on a resin-bonded salt crystal. Courtesy Guido Costa Projects, Turin. 2007 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 on a polycarbonate sheet, 72 × 42 in.; 183 × 107 cm, 2009.

Hyperbaric–Hypobaric: pigment print, 53 × 35 in.; 135 × 89 cm. 2007 See Prints

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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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