Spacebuster By Raumlabor Not Coming To Roosevelt Island

You Tube Video of Spacebuster By Raumlabor

Curbed reported yesterday on the Spacebuster Bubble exhibit (it reminds me of Rover from The Prisoner) that will be installed in various neighborhoods across the city. The Storefront For Art And Architecture describes Spacebuster By Raumlabor as:

... a mobile inflatable structure - a portable, expandable pavilion - that is designed to transform public spaces of all kinds into points for community gathering. A new iteration of a past Raumlabor project, the Küchenmonument (presented in Europe in 2006-8), the Spacebuster will make its first appearance in the US this evening and will travel throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn for 10 consecutive evenings hosting various community events.

The pavilion is comprised of an inflatable bubble-like dome that emerges from a step van that also houses the compressor that keeps the Spacebuster inflated. The dome expands and organically adjusts to its surroundings, be it in a field, a wooded park, or below a highway overpass. The material is a translucent plastic that allows the events taking place inside of the shelter - screenings, lectures, dinners or discussions - to be entirely visible from the outside. Likewise the exterior environments become the events' backdrops....

Earlier this month, Curbed and Roosevelt Island 360 reported that the Spacebuster was to make a stop on Roosevelt Island but alas that is not to be. I inquired of RIOC President Steve Shane about the Spacebuster project which had originally included both RIOC and Gallery RIVAA as Partner Organizations. Mr. Shane replied:

It was a project that was proposed by an architectural firm and artist who failed to meet the deadline of submitting a proposal explaining the project and its purpose. It's not going to happen.

Representatives from Gallery RIVAA confirm this.

As far as I know this project has been scrapped due to their not meeting necessary deadlines

That's unfortunate. It might have been fun imagining the Spacebuster (following the example of the Prisoner's Rover) chasing down Roosevelt Islanders trying to escape from the Island.