Jolin Tsai - Pleasure World tour
A Blanck Canvas x The Squared Division
Custom Puppets and Scenic Systems for a Global World Tour
A Blanck Canvas is proud to see four custom-built, large-scale puppetry works come to life on Jolin Tsai’s Pleasure World Tour, created in collaboration with The Squared Division. Premiering in Taipei November 2025, to more than 120,000 fans across three sold-out nights, the tour sets a new benchmark for global live performance, where c-pop spectacle meets precision engineering.
Designed specifically for international touring, each creation introduces our latest chassis-led puppet systems, developed to perform reliably in
high-pressure arena environments. Every element was built for movement, durability, safety, and repeat performance, without compromising theatrical impact.
The Bull and Chariot
Leading the charge is the colossal Bull and Chariot, a mythic roving installation engineered to dominate the stadium. Rising nearly ten metres high, with the bull stretching over ten metres long, the structure is built on a custom rolling chassis that balances immense scale with controlled mobility. Internal steel ribbing supports exaggerated musculature and sweeping horns, while maintaining a lightweight inflatable skin suitable for touring. Hand-etched and painted in layered bronzes and ochres, the surface references ancient ritual and power, reading as a single moving sculpture beneath arena lighting. Trailing behind, a fully steel Roman-style chariot integrates seamlessly into the system, complete with sculpted foam wheels and columns painted to resemble carved timber. Operated by a coordinated team of performers, The Bull and Chariot move as one, engineered for full-visibility operation, precise cueing, and environments where nothing can fail.
The Snake
Slithering through the arena is the rideable Snake, a
thirty-metre-long kinetic inflatable sculpture built to carry a performer safely above the crowd. A rigid, CNC-sculpted foam head with hard coating forms a stable performance platform, while the inflatable body remains fully puppeteer-driven. Connected through a wheeled vertical chassis, the head rises over four metres and moves fluidly side to side, creating constant motion across the stadium floor. Painted scale by scale in earthy, opaque tones, The Snake requires six puppeteers on the chassis and head, and eight puppeteers on the inflatable tail to bring it to life, a feat of coordination, balance, and mechanical design.
Hubby, The Giant Rock Creature
Completing the landscape is Hubby, The Giant Rock Creature, a living extension of the stage itself. Constructed as a forced-air inflatable puppet made up of a towering head and two enormous arms, Hubby is animated by multiple puppeteers working in tight synchronisation. Scenic finishes give the surface a weathered stone appearance, while reinforced lift points allow the three-metre-tall head to rise above the set. The creature’s inflatable 15m long arms wrap around a bespoke mountain designed by Joe Blanck, standing over ten metres high. Built from CNC-routed styrene foam with fibreglass coating, artificial grass, and scenic rocks, the mountain assembles across six stage truss-supported sections at varying heights, turning stage infrastructure into a breathing, animated environment.
The Winged Horse
Bursting onto the stage in vivid contrast is The Winged Horse, reimagined as a bold, mythical pink creature scaled for arena performance. Standing three metres tall and nearly five metres long, with expansive articulated wings, the horse carries Jolin Tsai across the stage in a moment of pure fantasy. Built in our Melbourne workshop, the structure features a custom steel internal frame that allows controlled movement through the head and limbs while supporting the standing performer. The
hand-sculpted foam body is finished in sunset pinks and purples, layered with a dyed synthetic hair mane and tail, and detailed with individually sculpted feathers painted in deep violet hues. Graceful yet powerful, The Winged Horse blends whimsy with rigorous structural engineering.
To support this moment, a custom rock staircase was engineered to allow safe, seamless mounting from stage. Sculpted foam rock forms, scenic paintwork, and artificial plant detailing transform a practical access structure into part of the visual world, fantastical, stable, and tour-ready.
Massive thanks to Anka Inflatable, The Squared Division, Jolin & her team, and all the crew who made this thing sing.
After Taipei, the Pleasure World Tour rolls through China, Asia, Europe and Australia, and we can’t wait to see it continue
Check out more of our design process and behind the scenes sneak peaks on our instagram!