Zoë LeBrun
rubatosis
2023
sound and video installation; flute, guitar, breath, echocardiograms
'rubatosis' is a sound and video installation that utilizes echocardiogram videos of the artist’s own heart and breath, flute, and guitar to create a distorted auditory heartbeat. Conceptually, it revolves around the word ‘rubatosis’, coined by John Koenig in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (2012), which represents an “unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat” and speaks to concepts surrounding post-humanism and existentialism.
Documentation video above contains:
- excerpts from all three videos presented in installation
- different angles of physical installation at 'Transducer: BFA Honours Grad Exhibition'
- audio from main video (which in the installation, had 6 channels which were installed throughout room via 4 PA speakers and 2 guitar amps)
Physical Installation included:
- 4 TV screens (1 flatscreen, 3 CRT monitors)
- 1 reamper
- 2 guitar amps
- 4 PA speakers
- 2 DVD players
- 1 laptop with ProTools
- 1 audio interface
- 1 cart
- variety of cables (XLR, 1/4")