Maurice Agis - Dreamspace, or "The Giant Glowing Bubbletentballoon That Rules The Universe From The Centre Of Dulwich"

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Sorry to keep cluttering up the "fancy a breakfast" thread with this, it really deserves its own thread:

http://www.dreamspace-agis.com/webesp/index.htm

Dreamspace is currently in Dulwich Park. Please discuss Martin Agis and his work, or even better, make plans to return!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe I should have called this thread "The Dulwich Horror" but it's the diametric direct opposite of horror in its utter loveliness.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

that looks great - i can definitely go and check that out, and take photos :) so saturday afternoon for Dulwich Park then?
-- the neurotic awakening of s (stevem7...), August 31st, 2004 3:15 PM. (blueski) (later)

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I'm tempted to go and see this giant psychedelic bubble thing before Baran drinks on Sunday - anyone up for it?
-- Matt DC (runmd...), August 31st, 2004 3:18 PM. (Matt DC) (later)

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Ack, xpost. I could do Saturday afternoon as well, I'm sure.
-- Matt DC (runmd...), August 31st, 2004 3:18 PM. (Matt DC) (later)

Emma (with whom I experienced it yesterday) and I were talking about herding the remenants of her birthday/space party to go and see it and let it sooth our hangovers on Sunday morning...

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

> (When was it on the TV? I don't think it's been in England since I've been living here.)

http://www.dreamspace-agis.com/webesp/agiscv.htm at the bottom. dunno which one i saw.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post...

I want to talk about it, but I don't want to post spoilers! You really get no sense of scale, or the sense of the EMOTIONAL IMPACT of it from the photos. It looks vaguely silly and cheesy in photos, but in the flesh it's utterly awe-inspiring.

I'm not a big fan of installation art, or soundart, or conceptual art, or any of that crap (even less of a fan now due to overexposure) but this work really, truly moved even a jaded cynic like me.

Plus, you get to go barefoot and wear CAPES when you look at it. Surely that should sell you on it!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Stevem in a cape = Rick Wakeman.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

There's another one called "Colourspace" which is supposedly more like a tunnel (Dreamspace is like a cathedral!) which will be on Clapham Common at some point.

x-post BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!!! I WOULD PAY £11 TO SEE THAT!!!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.dreamspace-agis.com/images/pano3.jpg

Are you convinced yet?

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Woah...i saw colourspace at Clapham and it was magic...just like Kate says awe-inspiring...if this is bigger..and grander...it's going to be great.

― winterland, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Myself, Stevem and my friend Jo went on Saturday, and it was great. Like being inside a bouncy castle! We were in there for about 45 minutes, just kind of lying there and staring at all these strange multicoloured vistas and hardly saying anything.

Random observations:

It's kind of weird how whichever colour section you were in, it looked much less vivid in comparison to everything else around you - sitting in the yellow section it looked almost white.

You got to wear these cool cape-robe things! We looked like we were in the Polyphonic Spree. Also I noticed that the robe appeared to change colour according to which section you were in - and then proceeded to jump from one section to the next, while my friends pretended they didn't know me.

Also the music was great - it went from being incredibly soothing to quiet sinister without you even really noticing. And it blended in nicely with the sound of children playing.

Way too hot in there, mind.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 6 September 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

It's kind of weird how whichever colour section you were in, it looked much less vivid in comparison to everything else around you - sitting in the yellow section it looked almost white.

Yeah, we noticed that, too. Things would not look anywhere near as good when you were *in* the colour, than when you were looking at the colour from elsewhere.

The music was great, wasn't it? That's what I meant about it being Soundart that was not completely shite. It really suited the space, really made the experience more enjoyable.

I think the shimmery robes really made the experience even better - I felt sorry for the twats who were "too cool" to wear the robes, they really missed something.

I'm going back again on Thursday. I guess I'm taking my "date" there. See how he handles that sort of oddness.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 6 September 2004 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Its a lovely park as well, it feels open but kind of private and enclosed at the same time. I remember my parents taking me there as a kid but weirdly going back there didn't jog any memories.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 6 September 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the cape thing was too annoying in Saturday's heat tho, still it all very alien abduction-esque

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 6 September 2004 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Funny, I seem to remember it being air conditioned when we were there. In fact, I distinctly remember it being *cold* - especially in the blue bits.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 6 September 2004 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think the blue bits were actually any colder ;)

Was it just me or was the sound different depending on where you were standing. I remember there being far more chiming on the left side.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 6 September 2004 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

We spent hours trying to figure that out, but couldn't. It was a cycling piece involving 8 CD players and 16 speakers, so it could have been that the sound was moving (I was hoping that that was the case) or it could have just been the drift of the pieces going in and out of synch with each other.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 6 September 2004 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i found the sound very eerie and even 'negative' in tone but that's my perception. reminded me of the effect wind has on surfaces, pipes etc. - that low howling sound we find so creepy, or even the sounds that occur naturally with no human presence to attach them emotionally, the sounds heard by no-one.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 6 September 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Apparently it's back! next to Tower Bridge at the moment, according to Pick Me Up.

Please please please, everybody go down AS SOON AS POSSIBLE and experience the giant glowing bubbletent balloon that rules the universe from the heart of London Bridge.

Honestly, you know I think soundart is crap, but this really is worth it.

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Friday, 26 August 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Details here:

http://www.dreamspace-agis.com/webesp/2002.htm

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Friday, 26 August 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

oh dear

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Sunday, 23 July 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that must've been really really fucking horrible.

― JimD (JimD), Sunday, 23 July 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Terrifying. Steve - Jo and I were just talking about the day we all went to see that the other day. How does something that huge actually fly off the ground?! I wonder if the people in there actually knew what was happening...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 23 July 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

One of the guys inside it said he'd thought it was all meant to be happening, and that he was laughing about it until he hit the ground and realised that actually, something had gone wrong.

That video footage is awful.

― JimD (JimD), Sunday, 23 July 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

artist up on manslaughter charges
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/13/ukcrime

― koogs, Thursday, 14 February 2008 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

deja vu all over again

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/06/inflatable-labyrinth-of-light-and-color/

― koogs, Monday, 1 July 2019 08:41 (six years ago)

what could possibly go wrong

― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 1 July 2019 10:46 (six years ago)

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