Culture Digest: The RedBall Project On A Roll
Follow the bouncing ball, a mobile installation, as it travels around the world.
by Alison Caporimo from Reader's Digest | September 2012
Courtesy Kurt Perschke
Four years ago, artist Kurt Perschke tossed his RedBall Project, a traveling installation, into Chicago's Jay Pritzker Pavilion.
Since then, the 15-foot-wide vinyl ball has bounced to...
Courtesy Kurt Perschke
...cities like Taipei...
Courtesy Kurt Perschke
...Abu Dhabi...
Courtesy Kurt Perschke
...and Portland, Oregon, with fans suggesting where they'd like to see it next...
Courtesy Kurt Perschke
...and back to Chicago.
"In that moment, the person is not a spectator but a
participant in the act of imagination," Perschke says. Recently, he
rolled the ball from the Golden Jubilee Bridge to Riverside Terrace
during its United Kingdom tour.
Visit redballproject.com to track its travels.
