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  • Cushion -
    An over-sized inflatable cushion was put into urban locations so that passers by could play with it.
  • Dragon - video
    An air-inflated dragon was comissioned for William Klein's film Mr. Freedom. This creature was recycled in a number of urban events where people simply carried it through the streets.
  • Brickhill -
    An air-inflated cone-shaped structure printed with the image of bricks, which people could jump onto.
  • Pneu-Written -
    Elements of the MovieMovie (1966) were merged with a performance scenography made by John Lantham.
  • Waterwalk -
    The Waterwalk was a 3-metre-high tetrahedron shaped balloon made from transparent (and sometimes coloured) plastic. A watertight zip allowed people to enter and be sealed inside. When this lightweight structure was inflated with air, one or more
  • Sandquake -
    Long lengths of polythene tubing were buried in the sand at a beach in the Camargue in France. This tubing was then slowly inflated so that it gradually rose up and erupted out of the sand.
  • Airground -
    The Airgrounds were a new genre of air structures comprising soft, responsive architectures the public could interact with. At the Brighton Festival a pyramid-shaped inflatable with a transparent outer skin and yellow inner skin, partially inflated
  • The Dante Cupboard -
    This mixed-media sculpture extended over the gallery floor so that the viewers had to walk over it.
  • Slides of Clovis Trouille's paintings were projected over the buttocks of a replica of the leading lady in "Mes funérailles" (1940) and also onto a paper projection screen which was torn open by inflatable tubing during the performance. At the
  • Striptease films were projected onto a woman doing a striptease. She struggled to remove her clothes while tightly encapsulated inside an inflatable balloon-costume. When she was naked a masked figure inserted the nozzle of a fire extinguisher and