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  • 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
  • ... the film images. One of these screens had a transparent compartment filled with white balloons - tubes coming out of the screen...
  • 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
  • Book Plumbing -
    ... a material which John Latham was using extensively in his artistic practise at this time. One of the centerpieces was a...
  • Alpevent -
    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
  • ... accompanied by clouds of artificial smoke and the amplified sounds of the wind and thunder.This work was one of a series of... sky and clouds was projected onto it, accompanied by clouds of artificial smoke and the amplified sounds of the wind and thunder.This...
  • Waterquake
    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
  • No Thing
    A monumental sculpture proposed for the Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam and constituted by massive letters forming the words NO THING.
  • Another type of Airground which resembled a large mattress, its upper and lower surfaces held together by interior ties.