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Balloons update

Experiments with balloons

By David Boultbee - 7th January, 2011

(David was one of the artists that carried out an Action Research bursary in 2010/2011)

So, let’s put some ideas to the test!

I began by thinking about what I could arrange in public space  and thought that balloons might be a good option.  I didn’t want to use light – particularly because I needed to work in the daytime – and who doesn’t love balloons?

And so it was.  Exactly a year after Ffosfforescence, I was back trawling the party shops of Manchester for latex bargains.  They’re not all that cheap it turns out – but I was excited to find out how easy it was to buy helium which I had always assumed was available only to bone-fide childrens’ entertainers.

Collaborating with the other members of the bursary, we made a series of tags to go on the balloons with instructions such as ‘take me home’ or ‘put me somewhere else’ to see whether people would read them and how they would be interpreted.  The balloons were arranged in clusters and left in West Bromwich town centre.

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