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Disillusion of a Fish Pond was one of three performances during the exhibition This is no Thing - This is a Situation of Opportunity at the Kingly Street Gallery in London. In this work a naked woman swathed in bandages of cotton-wool was sitting at

This was a mixed-media installation using books in various ways, a material which John Latham was using extensively in his artistic practise at this time. One of the centerpieces was a performance using a Penguin bookcase in which all the books were

This expanded cinema performance was specially created for the Experimental Film Festival in Knokke-le-Zoute. It took place in the foyer of the festival building, with the audience sitting on the stairs and balcony. Three performers (Jeffrey Shaw,

In the Alpevent white polythene tubing was slowly inflated inside a somewhat confined space. The people there dragged and wove the tubing around their bodies, but expanding plastic gradually pushed many of them out of the room. A further performance

In Waterquake long lengths of tubing were dropped into a canal and then slowly inflated with air and smoke. The tubing emerged from the water, filling the canal and then spilling over into the surrounding streets. The spectators pulled and knotted

An inflatable tube made from transparent plastic, 250 metres long and 3 metres in diameter, was placed over the Mach lake connecting its opposite banks. This air-filled floating bridge had airlock revolving doors at each end, and its pliable floor

A city counsil street light repair vehicle was completely covered in tartan printed plastic. It drove nightly through Edinburgh broadcasting traditional bagpipe music and projecting tartan patterns onto the city's buildings. Also presented at

Inflatable replica of an exhibited sculpture by Ronald Bladen - this one the visitors could play with.

A large air-inflated cushion partially filled with air and water, which passers by could play on. The continuously splashing water inside this structure gave the work an idiosyncratic acustic quality.

This work created a collage of fictional events within a museum space by making projected images of the events appear contiguous with the real space and actual situations. The work was constituted by two structural elements: a large projection