Thomas Broadbent’s room-sized installations have included inflatable sewn sculptures, video, billboards, and ice sculpture. He addresses social and political issues with a humor that serves to expose inherent contradictions. Visually Broadbent takes the idea of “art as entertainment” as a positive function, incorporating the viewer as a sometimes unwitting participant in his larger-than-life production.

In Media-tation the viewer is invited to relax and contemplate multiple projections from the comfort of an enormous inflated mattress. In the party-like atmosphere of the installation Broadbent takes a meditative look at society and it’s politics in a playful and ironic way.