HD Video (Helium balloons)_6:48_2020
Party Balloons is a video that documents artist Keeley Haftner inhaling helium while discussing it as a non-renewable and depleting resource. The increased pitch of the artist's voice makes it difficult not to laugh at these depressing and urgent facts, inspiring a complicated range of emotions in the viewer.
Party Balloons is updated with the most recent research each time it is performed. Here it is being performed live for Compound Yellow's "Open House Group Show," a subsidiary event of the 2021 Terrain Biennial (Chicago, IL).