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Emergences of Continuous Forms was one of a series of performances and installations in this period which explored various methods of extending the cinematic image into the space of the viewers and of provoking the viewer's physical interactivity in...

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...

The Corpocinema ('corporeal cinema') was an expanded cinema environment presented in a series of open-air performances in Rotterdam and Amsterdam in 1967. The basic structure was a large air-inflated transparent PVC dome onto which film and slides...

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,...

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...

A large cloud-shaped and air-inflated structure was suspended from the roof of the Stedelijk Museum. During the night an image of a daytime sky and clouds was projected onto it, accompanied by clouds of artificial smoke and the amplified sounds of...