Media Art Net | Shaw, Jeffrey: Pig for Pink Floyd

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Jeffrey Shaw, «Pig for Pink Floyd», 1977
© Jeffrey Shaw

Works by Jeffrey Shaw:

Corpocinema Emergences of Continous Forms EVE (Extended Virtual Environment) Movie Movie Place-Ruhr Revolution The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway The Legible City The Narrative Landscape The Virtual Museum Viewpoint

London | Great Britain | Photograph: The Mark Fisher Studio

Jeffrey Shaw
«Pig for Pink Floyd»

The Animals stadium tour of the USA in the summer of 1977 followed the European arena tour of 1976. The indoor dates headlined the original inflatable pig, built by Jeffrey Shaw and Hipgnosis for the album cover shoot at Battersea Power Station in London. The helium-filled pig famously escaped, but it was recovered from a farm in Kent, hung on a wire, and flown over the crowds on the indoor shows.