"As a child, I imagined a place far behind our own sky. A planet with its own weather, its own atmosphere, its own logic entirely. It was my own version of science fiction. How did it feel on this planet? Was it snowy, windy, or could you sense the first green breath of spring-I called it Planet Z."
"Air has always been central to my practice. When you blow air into a balloon, you perform a version of this. You give something of yourself."
The Balloon Museum opens a permanent installation in New York this summer at the Tin Building, featuring a commissioned work by renowned performance artist Marina Abramović titled Snowy/Windy/Spring On The Planet Z. The installation creates a fantastical botanical garden filled with balloon sculptures resembling grass blades and a winding snowy path. Abramović drew inspiration from childhood imaginings of an alien planet with its own weather and atmosphere. The artist connects the project to her lifelong practice emphasizing air as central to her work, noting that inflating balloons represents giving something of oneself, similar to her 1977 performance piece Breathing In/Breathing Out with collaborator Ulay.
Read at Artnet News
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