Join Miss Hostess, your flight attendant with cosmic pezaz for an intergalactic joy ride through the sky!
...Man's dream is not the airoplane, not the hydroscope but a huge graceful ship that lifted gently into the air. Creating the imaginary often comes trough trial and error...
The inflable Space Auditorium exists of two compartments divided by a malleable floor. The airpressure in the lower department is higher then the one above. The floor, which is hold down by sandbags connected to robes, can hold up about 80 people. An airhostess, suspended from the top of the dome, hovered above the heads of the audience, subwoofers are vibrating the space. Exit via the emurgency slide.
Space Auditorium; inflatable dome (10 high and 20 m section) by Theo Botschuyver, air-performance Cocky Eek. commissioned by Theater aan Zee.
IJmuiden, The Netherlands, 2003
Windtunnel: stewardesses lead the public inside the red/white turbine, where the sound and the wind of a huge fan evoked the experience of taking a flight. The audience were lining up, before boarding the installation.
Airport Seppe, june 2011
Join Miss Hostess, your flight attendant with cosmic pezaz for an intergalactic joy ride through the sky!
...Man's dream is not the airoplane, not the hydroscope but a huge graceful ship that lifted gently into the air. Creating the imaginary often comes trough trial and error...
The inflable Space Auditorium exists of two compartments divided by a malleable floor. The airpressure in the lower department is higher then the one above. The floor, which is hold down by sandbags connected to robes, can hold up about 80 people. An airhostess, suspended from the top of the dome, hovered above the heads of the audience, subwoofers are vibrating the space. Exit via the emurgency slide.
Space Auditorium; inflatable dome (10 high and 20 m section) by Theo Botschuyver, air-performance Cocky Eek. commissioned by Theater aan Zee.
IJmuiden, The Netherlands, 2003
Windtunnel: stewardesses lead the public inside the red/white turbine, where the sound and the wind of a huge fan evoked the experience of taking a flight. The audience were lining up, before boarding the installation.
Airport Seppe, june 2011
