"Les Archives du Coeur" - Addition of heartbeats from Latvia to Christian Boltanski's archive on Teshima

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Christian Boltanski has been recording heartbeats around the world and archiving them in "Les Archives du Coeur", a museum located on Teshima where visitors can listen to any human pulse recorded for this ongoing project.

3,700 heartbeats from Latvia have just been added to the archive. These heartbeats were recorded between January 19, 2014 and April 20, 2014 in the venue below, and can now be listened to on Teshima.

■Exhibition title: Christian Boltanski The Heartbeat Archive
Location: Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
Recording period: January 19 - April 20, 2014
Number of recordings: 3,700 heartbeats