Work: Airground   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: The Airgrounds were a new genre of air structures comprising soft, responsive architectures the public could interact with. At the Brighton Festival a pyramid-shaped inflatable with a transparent...

Work: Airground Mattress   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: Another type of Airground which resembled a large mattress, its upper and lower surfaces held together by interior ties.

Work: Alpevent   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: 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...

Work: Aqua-Airground   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: 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.

Work: Auditorium   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment:

Work: Brickhill   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: An air-inflated cone-shaped structure printed with the image of bricks, which people could jump onto.

Work: Centipede   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: 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.

Work: Cloud (of daytime sky at night)   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: A large cloud-shaped and air-inflated structure was suspended from the roof of the Stedelijk Museum. During the night an image of a daytime sky and clouds was projected onto it, accompanied by clouds...

Work: Cushion   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: An over-sized inflatable cushion was put into urban locations so that passers by could play with it.

Work: Dragon   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: 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.

Work: Emergences of Continuous Forms   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: Emergences of Continuous Forms was one of a series of performances and installations in this period which explored various methods of extending the cinematic image into the space of the viewers and...

Work: EVE Extended Virtual Environment   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: EVE is a research and development project initiated at the ZKM Karlsruhe in cooperation with the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. It encompasses the conceptual and technical development of a new form of...

Work: Fort van Sjakoo   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: Inflatable tubing burst through a wall of brick-printed plastic that covered the shop window. This tubing was then taken into the street and used to signal the boundaries of controversial urban...

Work: Grassroll   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: 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.

Work: Hayward Gallery Projects   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: Three proposals for sculptures on the Hayward Gallery in London: a heap of giant inflatable potatoes on the terrace, an inflatable dome covered with a film projection which constituted a sphere of...

Work: Homage to Bladen   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: Inflatable replica of an exhibited sculpture by Ronald Bladen - this one the visitors could play with.

Work: More&Less   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: An installation in two rooms. One was filled with an inflatable structure that was slightly smaller than the room - visitors had to squeeze between it and the walls. In the other room the structure...

Work: MovieMovie   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: 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...

Work: Octopus   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: A large inflatable structure in form of an octopus was inflated inside the museum - the people there dragged about and entangled themselves in its long tentacles (25m). The work was made for the...

Work: Pig   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: A helium-inflated pig was specially made for the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals album. It was flown over the Battersea Power Station for the photograph, but accidentaly got free and flew many...

Work: Pneu-Written   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: Elements of the MovieMovie (1966) were merged with a performance scenography made by John Lantham.

Work: Pneutube   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: A large transparent inflatable tube the public could enter and which, depending on the context of presentation, functioned as an expanded cinema and performance environment, playful interactive space...

Work: Projections   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: A series of photographic prints on linen: a table cloth showing the image of a dinner serving , a window curtain showing the image of a venetian blind, a sheet hanging on a line showing the image of...

Work: Rainbow   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: A large rainbow coloured inflatable arch from which a fine spray of water fell, creating real rainbows.

Work: Sandquake   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: Long lengths of polythene tubing were buried in the sand at a beach in the Camargue in France. This tubing was then slowly inflated so that it gradually rose up and erupted out of the sand.

Work: Slapstick   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: Inflatable supertube indicating the height of the controversial planned new town hall.

Work: Supertube   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: 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.

Work: Teardrop   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: A large air-inflated teardrop hung from a crane and proclaimed the theme of the festival as well as the Javaphile performance Tearfall.

Work: Telepresent Onlookers   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment:

Work: Televents   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: 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...

Work: Three Pavilions   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: Three inflatable pavilions, each having a specific function, were specially commissioned for Sonsbeek buiten de perken. Besides the Information Pavilion, an air supported semi-sphere covered with...

Work: Water Totems   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: Air-inflate tubes printed with water imagery were floated as vertical columns in the Sloterplas lake in Amsterdam.

Work: Waterquake   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: 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...

Work: Waterwalk   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: The Waterwalk was a 3-metre-high tetrahedron shaped balloon made from transparent (and sometimes coloured) plastic. A watertight zip allowed people to enter and be sealed inside. When this...

Work: Waterwalk Tube   Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey Comment: 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...