Flights of Fancy
Next Saturday - 2 June 2012 - we're showing a new work, Both Statues Have Wings, as part of Flights of Fancy, a screening programme at Babylon Cinema, Mitte, Berlin. The film is about the two full figure statues of Otto Lilienthal in Berlin and joins a programme of works by over 50 artists - press release below.
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FLIGHTS OF FANCY
Kino Babylon (Saal 2+3) - 02.06.2012 - 18.30–23.30
TEGEL: FLIGHTS OF FANCY is a video programme that responds to the
planned closure of Berlin’s Tegel Airport. The project is organised by Jaspar
Joseph-Lester, Susanne Prinz and Julie Westerman and builds on a series of
events, exhibitions and publications that have been realised through cross-
cultural collaboration between artists based in the UK and Germany. The
event will be hosted by Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-
Luxemburg-Platz and screened at the Kino Babylon on Saturday 2 June at
6:30–11:30 p.m.
The closure of Tegel airport marks an important change in the way air travel is
organised and experienced. The design of this airport is of a time when flight
was associated with glamour, fantasy, technological progress, romantic
chance encounters and fictional disasters. The building consists of a large
concrete hexagonal structure circumnavigated by a corridor, punctuated with
brightly coloured check-in desks. Viewing platforms and executive lounges
populate the circumference of the building, inviting the traveller to enjoy a
navigable thoroughfare instead of the shed-like enclosure with limited seating.
There are commissioned art works, restaurants and bars, cafés and shops.
The décor follows the distinctive bright colour schemes of its age all the way
through to the plastic sinks and hand dryer in the restrooms.
Tegel Airport is closing and while there are rumours about the next
incarnation of this elegant building, what it might become in the future remains
uncertain. The 36 films selected for TEGEL: FLIGHTS OF FANCY speculate
on both how the airport might be occupied in the future and what it symbolized
in the past, they explore how air travel is hard wired into the imagination: the
cinematic (disaster, romance and action movie all in one), and consider
concepts of cultural mobility, exchange and internationalism.
Artists:
Michelle Atherton, Diane Bauer+Amanda Beech, Chloé Brown, Giorgio Cappozzo+Robert
Gschwantner, Alison J.Carr+Kerstin Honeit, Steven Chodoriwsky, Jamie Crew, Nick
Crowe+Ian Rawlinson, Harriet Davies, Bryan Eccleshall+Karl Heinz Jeron, Stella Flatten+Jon
Klein+Liane Lang, Hondartza Fraga+Miguel Santos, Rachel Garfield+Janet Hodgson,
Margarita Gluzberg, Jane Harris, Gill Hobson, Dale Holmes+Gary Simmonds, Dominique
Hurth, Stephan Hüsch+Águeda Simó, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Renata Kaminska, Natasja
Keller+Irene Pätzug, Sharon Kivland, Olga Lewicka+Carsten Zorn, Jeff Luckey, T.C.
McCormack, Ashley Metz+Boris, Riedel+Joachim Stein, Jon Moscow, Karina Nimmerfall,
Robert Partridge, Amy Patton, Melody Panosian+Stéphane Querrec, Karin Ruggaber+Sarah
Staton, Leon Seth, Julie Westerman.
\\\ TEGEL ///
FLIGHTS OF FANCY
Kino Babylon (Saal 2+3) - 02.06.2012 - 18.30–23.30
TEGEL: FLIGHTS OF FANCY is a video programme that responds to the
planned closure of Berlin’s Tegel Airport. The project is organised by Jaspar
Joseph-Lester, Susanne Prinz and Julie Westerman and builds on a series of
events, exhibitions and publications that have been realised through cross-
cultural collaboration between artists based in the UK and Germany. The
event will be hosted by Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-
Luxemburg-Platz and screened at the Kino Babylon on Saturday 2 June at
6:30–11:30 p.m.
The closure of Tegel airport marks an important change in the way air travel is
organised and experienced. The design of this airport is of a time when flight
was associated with glamour, fantasy, technological progress, romantic
chance encounters and fictional disasters. The building consists of a large
concrete hexagonal structure circumnavigated by a corridor, punctuated with
brightly coloured check-in desks. Viewing platforms and executive lounges
populate the circumference of the building, inviting the traveller to enjoy a
navigable thoroughfare instead of the shed-like enclosure with limited seating.
There are commissioned art works, restaurants and bars, cafés and shops.
The décor follows the distinctive bright colour schemes of its age all the way
through to the plastic sinks and hand dryer in the restrooms.
Tegel Airport is closing and while there are rumours about the next
incarnation of this elegant building, what it might become in the future remains
uncertain. The 36 films selected for TEGEL: FLIGHTS OF FANCY speculate
on both how the airport might be occupied in the future and what it symbolized
in the past, they explore how air travel is hard wired into the imagination: the
cinematic (disaster, romance and action movie all in one), and consider
concepts of cultural mobility, exchange and internationalism.
Artists:
Michelle Atherton, Diane Bauer+Amanda Beech, Chloé Brown, Giorgio Cappozzo+Robert
Gschwantner, Alison J.Carr+Kerstin Honeit, Steven Chodoriwsky, Jamie Crew, Nick
Crowe+Ian Rawlinson, Harriet Davies, Bryan Eccleshall+Karl Heinz Jeron, Stella Flatten+Jon
Klein+Liane Lang, Hondartza Fraga+Miguel Santos, Rachel Garfield+Janet Hodgson,
Margarita Gluzberg, Jane Harris, Gill Hobson, Dale Holmes+Gary Simmonds, Dominique
Hurth, Stephan Hüsch+Águeda Simó, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Renata Kaminska, Natasja
Keller+Irene Pätzug, Sharon Kivland, Olga Lewicka+Carsten Zorn, Jeff Luckey, T.C.
McCormack, Ashley Metz+Boris, Riedel+Joachim Stein, Jon Moscow, Karina Nimmerfall,
Robert Partridge, Amy Patton, Melody Panosian+Stéphane Querrec, Karin Ruggaber+Sarah
Staton, Leon Seth, Julie Westerman.