Mind Expander / Flyhead Helmet

Haus-Rucker-Co, Günter Zamp Kelp, Laurids Ortner, Klaus Pinter, Manfred Ortner · 1968

This is the Flyhead Helmet, made by the Viennese group Haus-Rucker-Co in nineteen sixty-eight — plastic, metal and electronics you put over your head to have your vision and hearing deliberately distorted. They designed a series of these: architecture shrunk to the size of one person's perception.

Medium Plastic, metal, electronic components, self-adhesive tapes, and paint · Dimensions 12 7/8 x 15 3/4 x 11 1/2" (32.7 x 40 x 29.2 cm) · Credit Purchase

Hanging beside it in Gallery 417: "Oscar" car design template, Casa Mara, Caracas, Venezuela

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Fleur lamp (model LP166), Insurance, PH Artichoke Lamp, Beakers, Vase, Hanging Lotus Lamp