Breath in Breath out

Artist: Andrea Ray

Viewed: Wednesday, November 07
Arts 111 @ 02:30p.m




Andrea Ray is an installation and sound artist. She talks about the overwhelming feeling of the metropolitan life. I wanted to go to this show, because I know how important it is to always have a way of releasing stress. Ray's installations deals with anxiety as they offer a way of comfort and just a moment of peace. She also uses a lot of audio, using narrative story telling audios to go along with her installations. They were some pieces that I like such as filter, which faces the former World Trade Center site. Filtering is a psychological coping strategy, and in the audio you hear a male and female narrating story from being at ease to being intense and then being normal again. However, they were some other ones that I thought were quite boring like the one with the tennis court. The audio sometimes makes you want to go to sleep, but maybe that is part of her purpose. The experience will probably be better if you are at the actual site.

http://web.mac.com/rayandrea