WESTERN FRONT – Blowing Bubbles

Description:

This playful performance by Alzek Misheff invited audience members to blow bubbles in the Grand Luxe Hall.

Straws and styrofoam cups filled with soap were passed out for personal bubble blowing. Meanwhile, tubes of compressed air were fed into a garbage bin full of liquid solution. The suds quickly overtook the volume of the vessel and dramatically overflowed onto a tarp positioned to catch the spill. Microphones were arranged around the room to amplify the rolling pops and cracks of bubble blowing.

Following the twenty-minute performance, Mischeff invited the audience members to a Bulgarian supper.

Video documentation is available upon request.

A group of people gather around a plastic garbage bin overflowing with bubbles.

An overexposed shot of three people gathered around a plastic bin that is overflowing with bubbles. The liquid pours onto a tarp arranged on the floor.

Audience members are gathered around Jane Ellison, feeding a tube into a plastic bin that is overflowing with bubbles.

Soapy bubbles spill out of a plastic garbage can and overflow onto a tarp on the floor. A microphone is pointed towards the top of the bin.

Jane Ellison snakes a tube into a plastic garbage bin that is overflowing with bubbles. Three people stand on the periphery of a tarp that catches the spill.

Hank Bull stands next to Alzek Misheff as he pours more bubble solution onto an already overflowing bin of bubbles. A plastic tarp catches the fill.

Alzek Misheff snakes a tube into a garbage can that is overflowing with bubbles. A plastic tarp catches the spill.

Alzek Misheff pours a pitcher of liquid onto a garbage can that is overflowing with bubbles.

Captions:

Alzek Misheff, Blowing Bubbles, photo documentation, Sep 11, 1979.
Alzek Misheff, Blowing Bubbles, photo documentation, Sep 11, 1979.
Alzek Misheff, Blowing Bubbles, photo documentation, Sep 11, 1979.
Alzek Misheff, Blowing Bubbles, photo documentation, Sep 11, 1979.
Alzek Misheff, Blowing Bubbles, photo documentation, Sep 11, 1979.
Hank Bull and Alzek Misheff performing Blowing Bubbles, photo documentation, Sep 11, 1979.
Alzek Misheff, Blowing Bubbles, photo documentation, Sep 11, 1979.
Alzek Misheff, Blowing Bubbles, photo documentation, Sep 11, 1979.

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