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  • Water Totems -
    Air-inflate tubes printed with water imagery were floated as vertical columns in the Sloterplas lake in Amsterdam.
  • Featured this month: ARS MEMORIA: ART, IDENTITY AND LOCATIONAL MEMORY Curated by Dr Shaun Wilson This exhibition presents artwork that incorporates issues of identity by using the image as a mode of articulating, and from this coming to terms
  • 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
  • The film Continuous Sound and Image Moments (1966) was projected onto a live performance of professional female mud wrestlers.
  • 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
  • Another type of Airground which resembled a large mattress, its upper and lower surfaces held together by interior ties.
  • A large air-inflated cushion partially filled with air and water, which passers by could play on. The continuously splashing water inside this structure gave the work an idiosyncratic acustic quality.
  • 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.