claudia esslinger
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Breathing Room (2003)  In this installation the viewer confronts a seven-foot breathing machine pumping handmade leather bellows rhythmically, consistently.  The mechanical sounds compliment slow, groaning child-like accordian sounds accompanying the video.  A 15’x 9’ rawhide scrim, stitched together and stretched like flayed flesh on a steel frame receives the image of swarming spiders.  Both compelling and repulsive, the installation alludes to a painful narrative, distant enough to let the viewer complete the tale.  The similarity of the name to the single channel video: "Breathing Lessons" is due to the narrative connection. Although this piece was done first, in the body of work it becomes an abstract compliment to the more specific filmic work.

Breathing Room was exhibited at the McDonough Museum of Youngstown State Gallery  in 2003

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Contact Information:
claudia.esslinger@gmail.com
​esslinge@kenyon.edu

  • Current
  • Installation/Media
    • Distant Tracings
    • Host
    • Double Vision
    • States of Being
    • Video Sculptures
    • Motion Pictures
    • Horizon
    • La Medida >
      • La Medida: Act 5: Proportion
      • La Medida Act 4: Meter
      • La Medida: Act 3: Frequency and Amplitude
      • La Medida: Act 2 Interpolation
      • La Medida: Act 1 Modulation
    • The Synergy Project
    • Texture Mapping II
    • Civil Divination
    • Projected Memories
    • Breathing Room
    • Barriers
    • Retopia
    • Suburban Comfort
    • Spoems
    • Searching for the Aurora
  • Film
    • The (Snow) Migrant
    • Altered Seas, Altered States
    • Sparrow
    • Distant Tracings
    • Vestiges/ Solus
    • MovingGMA
    • Breathing Lessons
    • Cistern
    • Frequency and Amplitude
    • Avis Urbanus
    • InnerArbor
    • Render
    • Absent/ Present
    • La Medida y Cabo de Hornos
    • Trapeze
    • Texture Mapping
  • Photo
    • Specimens and Reflections
    • The (Snow) Migrant
    • Morphology
    • Sparrow
    • Dreams
    • Empty
  • Resume and Bio
  • Design
  • Collaboration Links
  • Student Work
  • Sketchbook