Performed as part of the festival Kontakte at Akademie der Künste Berlin, Artificial Respiration explores the relationship between breathing, mechanical life-support systems, and the transformation of invisible bodily processes into spatial experience.

Four audio sources are spatially distributed and continuously moved through an Ambisonics system while simultaneously being analyzed to control the intensity of four ventilators positioned in the space. Equipped with reflective material, the ventilators generate dynamic visual patterns through air movement and light reflection.

Borrowing its title from the medical act of artificial respiration — the external sustaining of breath and life — the work reflects on respiration as both a biological necessity and a technologically mediated process. Breathing becomes rhythm, circulation, and feedback: an exchange between body, machine, and environment.

The performance creates an immersive interaction between sound, light, air, and motion, transforming acoustic processes into a physical and spatial experience.