Evacuation

kanarinka documents Boston's new(ish) evacuation route, measuring it by the number of breaths it takes to traverse it. I thought it was an interesting concept given the effects of the dust from the twin towers upon collapsing and also the method through which dirty bombs disseminate their payload: through the air.
kanarinka describes the project as an attempt to measure our post-9/11 collective fear in the individual breaths that it takes to traverse these new geographies of insecurity.
The method she uses for documenting the project and displaying it is also quite intriguing. She recorded her breaths from the run along the evacuation route and replays the recordings through speaker cones suspended in glass jars that are proportional to the amount of air expended during a given stretch along the evacuation route. Without bringing the viewer to the actual path and making them run it this method of representation provides a sense of immediacy that viscerally connects the audience to the project.

Link: It takes 154000 breaths to evacuate Boston