In the wake of Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s pioneering work, visionary architects including Frei Otto and Buckminster Fuller established bubbles as a recognized artistic and architectonic form. The Berlin-based art duo Plastique Fantastique (Marco Canevacci and Yena Young) go one step further and harness them as a medium of temporary social interactions. The philosopher Vil\u00e9m Flusser conceived of space in the digital universe as a network of relational settings in which humans can be in multiple places at one, as a \u201cbubble that extends into the future.\u201d Plastique Fantastique transform our urban and rural environments into laboratories for such spaces in which urgent social, political, and aesthetic questions are negotiated. Oversized translucent bubbles, traffic islands ringed by diaphanous tubes, giant lifebelts, air-filled sausages that the audience at a Peaches concert pass over their heads: Plastique Fantastique\u2019s installations fuse art, performance, people, and architecture in a multisensory experience that blurs the conventional boundaries of art and focuses our attention on the larger bubble in which human existence is contained. Richly illustrated with exceptional photographs, this monograph is the first to document a representative selection from the duo\u2019s projects of the past two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the wake of Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s pioneering work, visionary architects including Frei Otto and Buckminster Fuller established bubbles as a recognized artistic and architectonic form. The Berlin-based art duo Plastique Fantastique (Marco Canevacci and Yena Young) go one step further and harness them as a medium of temporary social interactions. The philosopher Vil\u00e9m Flusser conceived of space in the digital universe as a network of relational settings in which humans can be in multiple places at one, as a \u201cbubble that extends into the future.\u201d Plastique Fantastique transform our urban and rural environments into laboratories for such spaces in which urgent social, political, and aesthetic questions are negotiated. Oversized translucent bubbles, traffic islands ringed by diaphanous tubes, giant lifebelts, air-filled sausages that the audience at a Peaches concert pass over their heads: Plastique Fantastique\u2019s installations fuse art, performance, people, and architecture in a multisensory experience that blurs the conventional boundaries of art and focuses our attention on the larger bubble in which human existence is contained. Richly illustrated with exceptional photographs, this monograph is the first to document a representative selection from the duo\u2019s projects of the past two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19522,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2208,2209,2216,2217],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19531","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-all-books","7":"product_cat-architecture","8":"product_cat-performance-art","9":"product_cat-sculpture","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n