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  • Supertube -
    A high volume of air was blown from below into a long open-ended polythene tube caused it to flap around wildly in the sky. Smoke and confetti could be added to the air stream.
  • Wind and Rain -
    A room was densely and completely filled with confetti that was being vigorously blown about by big fans. At one point a live elephant was brought into the room and the not realized intention (because the elephant had a cold) was to paint his belly
  • Grassroll -
    An air-inflated tube covered with synthetic grass was placed on a grass field behind the Stendlijk Museum in Amsterdam where passers by could play with it and in whatever way they wished.
  • Water Totems -
    Air-inflate tubes printed with water imagery were floated as vertical columns in the Sloterplas lake in Amsterdam.
  • 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.
  • 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 -
    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
  • The film Continuous Sound and Image Moments (1966) was projected onto a live performance of professional female mud wrestlers.
  • 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