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  • 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
  • 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.
  • Televents
    Numerous disillusionary manipulations of domestic TV sets were made for a television broadcast by the V.P.R.O. For instance, the TV screen was replaced with a white painted black balloon on which film was projected - when the balloon was inflated
  • Inflatable replica of an exhibited sculpture by Ronald Bladen - this one the visitors could play with.
  • ...large air-inflated cushion partially filled with air...
  • Centipede
    An inflatable centipede whose 100 feet were provided for by the people who carried it through the streets. During the Moomba festival it was also floated on the Yarra river in Melbourne.
  • Rainbow
    A large rainbow coloured inflatable arch from which a fine spray of water fell, creating real rainbows.