{"product_id":"9781913689872","title":"Sensual Laboratories","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn innovate counter-history that places the liquid light show at the heart of a new understanding of experimental audio-visual art in the 1960s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout the 1960s the liquid light show was the quintessential mode of countercultural expression: live, interactive, collaborative, acid-bright, and ephemeral. Flowering in coffee bars and discotheques, they quickly became synonymous with the wildest excesses of psychedelic art and popular music. But light shows also crucially inspired avant-garde artists and filmmakers to experiment with the performative elements of projection, taking film projection—along with hand-painted glass slides, colored inks, bodily fluids—outside of its traditional site of exhibition, and onto walls, inflatables, and skin. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSensual Laboratories\u003c\/i\u003e traces the influence of light shows into the worlds of underground film and expanded cinema, exploring how these luminous attractions fundamentally altered perceptions surrounding the event of projection. Tackling a long-neglected subject with a broad and bracing comprehension of inter-media influence, this important book illuminates the vital yet long-occluded role that light shows played in the development of experimental art throughout the 1960s and beyond.","brand":"Sophia Satchell-Baeza","offers":[{"title":"MIT Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-11-12","offer_id":46019555197183,"sku":"9781913689872","price":36.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_6de786db-8ebb-4203-88db-d1310e6defd4.jpg?v=1723862743","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781913689872","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}