B R E A T H E
For the Zendai Museum of Modern Art's 366-day public intervention project,
INTRUDE ,
an retrofitted-oxygen- dispensing three-wheel bicycle was
rolled into a busy market area in Shanghai. People
could sit in the back of the cart and inhale air
free of urban contaminants.
Breathe is an adaption of "Fresh Air
Cart," a performance project originally done in 1972
by New York sculptor Gordon Matta-Clark and video artist
Juan Downey.
Breathe -Sarah Lewison with Jay Brown, sponsored by Zendai Museum INTRUDE 366, and with the
generous and unwavering support of Lijiang Studio
Video documentation
Shanghai air quality on November 6, 2008 (the day the project was executed)
Source
The chart covers the main pollutants from combustion common in cities.
NO2 and SO2 are compounds Nitrogen and Sulfur, respectively, form with Oxygen.
Both adversely impact health at extended high levels. PM10 in this chart refers to airborne
particulates.
The main sources
of primary PM10 are road transport (all road transport
emits PM10, but diesel vehicles emit a greater mass of
particulate per vehicle kilometre), stationary
combustion (domestic coal combustion has traditionally
been the major source of particulate emissions in the
UK) and industrial processes (including bulk handling,
construction, mining and quarrying)."
from Pollutant Detail
