A 12′ diameter translucent balloon is suspended from the ceiling. Two 16mm projectors are prepared with light sculpting funnels (curled black paper) for circular projection.
A round translucent screen, an inflated weather balloon provides another form for activating the audience. To see the film spectators move around and under the screen. The audience movement creates multiple viewpoints as the image curves and bends.
“Be Mine Valentine” Performance, 80 Langton Street, San Francisco
Barbara Hammer dreamed of space, of freeing the rectangular film screen to a more liberated form, of escaping the confines of the frame, the “domestic house”. In AVAILABLE SPACE she pushed the limits of restriction in eight different sections and eight different ways.
“The Great Goddess” Performance, Skylight Studio, Berkeley
