Heartbeat Artists

Christian Boltanski's island of death

The French artist is creating an archive of heartbeats to be housed on a remote Japanese island

http://au.phaidon.com/agenda/art/events/2012/march/12/christian-boltanskis-island-of-death/

SASAKIinstallation artworks that superimpose participants' heartbeats on top of each other.http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2011/06/sasaki_heartbeat_artist_dwell.php

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Record audience's heartbeat as they watch imagery.
So I went through and pulled a bunch of stock footage, like hyenas eating a corpse, dogs barking at people, babies crying, larva — anything we could think of in the art department that seemed either aggressive or really, really annoying; anything that would just make you ill at ease. At the same time, Lena was like, 'Maybe one or two of them are, like, flowers in a field and oddly peaceful.'