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...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 were...

... 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. The gradual inflation of plastic tubing forced...

...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, Theo Botschuyver, and...

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

... and wove the tubing around their bodies, but expanding plastic gradually pushed many of them out of the room. A further performance element were clusters of inflatable tetrahedrons, which were filled with smoke and manipulated in various ways.

...The Diadrama was an audio-visual performance with over 2000 slides being projected onto a large wide screen by three pairs of synchronised slide projectors. The main themes explored in this work were panoramic methods of representation, the collage of visual and...

... freely interpreted the themes of Peter Gabriel's song cycle to provide a continuous visual accompaniment to the live stage performance (Genesis world tour 1975). These slides were projected onto three screens installed over the full width of the stage...

... The presentation at 'de Appel' explored the possibilities of an interactive electronic connection between a live cello performance and the consequent articulation of laser-generated light forms.

... - which needless to say attracted a lot of attention and press coverage. A similar pig was made for the Pink Floyd's live performance - this one flew over the audience and then exploded, releasing the aroma of freshly fried bacon.

... servomotors. Suspended above the stage, these mirrors reflected beams of light from follow-spot projectors and during the performance were moved about according to programmed and improvised choreographies. In certain positions these mirrors also offered...