Ann Veronica Janssens

 I started looking into sense deprivation when thinking about cutting out all the light inside the room, making the space pitch black so as to focus solely on the breathing playing from speakers. I came across Ann Veronica Janssens Mists of Immediacy on www.installationart.net, and instantly thought of my own work.

Mist of Immediacy is an installation inside a glass cube room containing coloured mist that envelops the audience numbing all the senses. 

"I was standing in nothingness. Blissful, bright, and totally opaque was the space that surrounded me, and that dimmed all sound. Where was I? In a strong literal sense, nowhere. I saw nothing, with my eyes wide open. But whereas the idea of nothing is usually associated with darkness, the dense, impenetrable mist packed into the space, whose limits I could not even guess"

Mieke Bal - Art historial and theorist.

http://www.installationart.net/Chapter2Immersion/immersion03.html

Popped Balloon

On a cold Tuesday morning, I woke up at 5 am to go to the studio in order to film a video inside my almost finished room in a room. The balloon was capable of blowing up to 80cm wide. I had decided to film myself blowing it up with my own breath until the side of the balloon touched the walls of the room. I had to be in the studio by my self so no one would make sounds that would be recorded in the video. This is how that wonderful morning turned out. 

Josie Do Nizza. 2012. Fail.

Room inside a room

I have began building a room inside my studio to play around with sound and projections inside it for my final work of this year. I decided to build a room due to what happened in the year 2 exhibition 'Hairy Sunrise', where my sound work was inaudible. I want to create a room where the audience can come into and experience the sound or projection in a private, intimate place. Hopefully I will be able to make it sound proof in order to block out all sounds that are not coming from inside the room, thus surrounding the spectator with senses. 

Mike Parr

"The idea is that you adjust, you kind of get into synch with me and that the film show you coming into synch with me as an aspect of the point of the work"

- Mike Parr (about 100 Breaths) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw0xv__mokY

Breath & Body

I have recently started paying closer attention to the actual sound of breath. On its own rather than accompanied by something else. The video below is a simple documentation of conscious breathing. 

Josie Do Nizza. 2012. Breathing

I also wanted to experiment with other body generated sounds, subtle ones. The sounds which require close attention in other to hear, just like breathing. 

Josie Do Nizza. 2012. Swallow

Paper bag

Looking back on my many balloon experiments, I tried finding another object that could capture breath inside it and allow the breath to shape it. A paper bag in my close proximity seemed perfect. A found object used in our day to day life. I edited the video like I did in a past work to add my own view of it, and focus attention on in and out movements. This way I could experiment with all breaths at once. Slow, calm, deep, short. 

Josie Do Nizza. 2012

'I think good art makes a person feel individual and conscious. And there is awareness in the moment of the contact with art.'

Gabriel Orozco, (video for Tate Britain)