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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

... length of the gallery producing a spatial materialisation of the film images. One of these screens had a transparent compartment filled with white balloons - tubes coming out of the screen allowed the public to inflate these balloons and so control the...

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 work 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. Viewers could interactively control the inflation and deflation of transculent white surgical

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

... as smoke, steam, water spray and confetti were used to fill the interior space of the dome and so constitute a volume of particles on which the projected images were attenuated. Fireworks let off inside the dome created lighting, colour and smoke effects...

...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 embedded in jelly....

... and the bodies of the performers and then of the audience (many of whom spontaneously threw off their clothes) became part of the cinematic spectacle. In this way the immersive space of cinematic fiction included the literal and interactive immersion of...

The film Continuous Sound and Image Moments (1966) was projected onto a live performance of professional female mud wrestlers.

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