SPATIAL GEOGRAPHIES : INFLATABLES
Exploration of negative space, as a playful and interactive medium for the public experience. An alternative negotiation with an "invisible" element = space.
How do our bodies negotiate with space?
How can space be made available through inflatables?
Can the body experience space?
The exploration is set as multi-sited studies with no particular final or refined production. Rather various studies and experiments that aim to provoke thought and experience through research exploration.
The studies attempt to engage with the notion of negative space as the inhabitable space-medium of the body.
negative home spaces
negative home spaces
negative chair spaces
negative chair spaces
INFLATABLE STUDY #1
Exploration of XL inflatable form in large open space with dancer/performer interactions.
Study Highlighted 3 main observations:
- Sense of Play
- Shifting Visual Space
- Body Against Membrane
- Body Constrained and Fighting Volume of Membrane
inflatable performances
INFLATABLE STUDY #2
The INFLATO-SUIT
Further exploring the relationship of the body to space this experiments aims to bring the body into direct contact with an inflatable of its personal space.
The video demonstrates a rhetoric and satirical exploration of the body within an awareness of its personal space-space.
INFLATABLE STUDY #3
Exploration of basic inflatable transposed from large space into the living space.
EXPERIMENT 1: Studio
EXPERIMENT 2: Home
EXPERIMENT 3: Small Scale Experiment
How does the body relate to a familiar space when the presence of a plastic membrane transforms the familiar into a new playful and spatially altered environment.
Do we view familiar spaces with a new eye?
Is our relationship with our private environments altered by a spatial being?
inflatable in/consuming the home/body
