Photos: A look at Sphaerae at the Pasadena AxS Festival

An audience inside Sphaerae takes in “10,000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid,” a show by Netherlands-based Russian artists Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand that uses laser light to scan the surfaces of nucleating and dissipating soap bubble clusters.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Sphaerae’s creator, Dutch architect Cocky Eek, right, talks with Lynn Tejada inside the inflatable performance space.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Evelina Domnitch produces bubbles as multicolored lasers are projected through them. Her collaborator, Dmitry Gelfand manipulated live music with his laptop during the performance, “10,000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid.”  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Shapes are projected on the inside surface of Sphaerae during a performance by Lucky Dragons in Pasadena. The inflatable performance space is making its North American debut at the city’s AxS Festival.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand perform “10,000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid.” The AxS Festival continues through Oct. 5.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Dutch artist Cocky Eek installs her inflatable art gallery Sphaerae in Pasadena on Sept. 18.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Sphaerae is a giant blow-up structure that will house performances and is part of the Pasadena Art and Science festival AxS.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Cocky Eek, far left, stands inside her inflatable art gallery, which rests at the corner of Orange Grove and Colorado boulevards in Pasadena.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

“It’s like a living organism, something that grows,” says Dutch artist Cocky Eek of her installation Sphaerae at the Pasadena AxS Festival.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)