*You've gotta love developments like this...
maybe they can turn it into a museum-economy
urban entertainment destination where
small children are literally blown away.
An Arts Catalyst event
Artists Airshow
Former Royal Engineering Workshops, Farnborough,
Hants, UK
Sunday September 12 1PM-6PM
Free entry by reservation, places are limited so book
as soon as possible.
A day of art and flying in and around Europe's largest
wind tunnel
Join us in discovering one of Britain's 'secret
places', the now deserted research facility where
supersonic flight was developed and the ghosts of
sixties rocket projects linger.
Right next to the runway used for the official
Farnborough Airshow are the abandoned wind tunnels,
test tanks and life-size helicopter flight simulators
where secret projects were developed during the second
world war and the cold war. Saved from demolition,
they will now be developed into a heritage centre and
business park.
Selected artists, working with ideas of flight, will
present a day of
process-based works and experiments for a limited
audience, with guided tours of the wind tunnels.
Simon Faithfull will present 'Escape Vehicle no.6', a
live version of his acclaimed video work '30km',
launching a meteorological balloon with live TV
transmission to the edge of space.
Anne Bean will perform, in a fleeting moment,
pyrotechnic sky drawings.
Stefan Gec, with Neal White, will show part of his
work 'The Celestial Vault' recorded in the giant
centrifuge at Moscow's Star City, in Europe's largest
wind tunnel.
Louise K Wilson will present a work based on flight
simulation, stunt-flying and Britain's lost
technological heritage
Tim Knowles will use the wind to make randomised
balloon drawings.
Australian artist Zina Kaye will show documentation
and talk about her 74cc 3 metre wingspan surveillance
airplane 'Observatine'.
Flow Motion's Dissolve will be screened in the
Transonic Wind tunnel, where supersonic flight was
first tested.
Marko Peljhan will give a talk about the S-77CCR
(http://www.s-77ccr.org) project, which has ties to
the Vienna anti-government demonstrations of 2000.
Luke Jerram will show his new work 'Ghost Plane' in
the darkness of one of the wind tunnel chambers.
Miles Chalcraft presents Tear-rain, in which a
two-stage rocket showers the site with tears.
Guided tours, organised by the Farnborough Air
Sciences Trust, will be given by the engineers who
once worked in the facility.
Please email us with names of those attending. You
must be on the list of people attending to get on to
the site.
to : [email protected]
If we still have places we will mail you back with
directions
www.artscatalyst.org
