Balls seems to be a theme for the summer of 2015. 9 million balls were dumped into the California water reservoirs to reduce evaporation while thousands of people “swam” in Snarkitecture’s BEACH with 1 million balls at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. In the UK, Charles Petillon made a white cloud with 100,000 sphere balloons and Steve Messam held red balloons at 5 feet for walking. Ray King suspended steel balls arranged as important dates on an abacus. Mixed colors of balls were half-buried on an Australian beach by Warlukurlangu Collaboration and thousands of volunteers painted balls for LA’s MacArthur Park. The grandma and daddy of balls – Yayoi Kusama and Kurt Perschke – kept touring the world. The summer’s excitement was the escape of Perschki giant red ball into the street of Toledo, Ohio.
Shade balls for California reservoirs
More than 9 million shade balls used
BEACH by Snarkitecture used 1,000,000 balls
BEACH by Snarkitecture at The National Building Museum
MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, 3000 balls
Charles Petillon, “Heartbeat” with 100,000 white balloons, Covent Gardens, UK
Warlukurlangu Collaboration’s “Water Dreaming” at Sculptures by the Sea, Australia
Steven Messam’s “Level” at Key Theatre, Peterborough. UK
Ray King’s “Abacus” at Oregon State University, USA
Yayoi Kusama at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (KMFA) in Taiwan
Artist Kurt Perschke’s “RedBall Project” got loose in Toledo, Ohio
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