Of air travel and airports
CABIN PRESSURE — a series of one-night performance events to be held in the famous Cabin club in Liverpool, timed to coincide with the Liverpool Biennial.
“The events aim to bring together a wide and diverse selection of live art works based around the theme of air travel. You are invited to contribute live performance installations which draw upon the glamour, sophistication and excitement of the 60s and 70s flying experience. We would also be interested in extending this theme and bringing it up to date by considering the technological, environmental and social implications of modern air travel.
.:thePooch:. will host these events as cabin crew, taking on a variety of characters commonly associated with air travel. Throughout the evening, they will take care of guests, provide a constant roaming background performance to set the scene and will aid other artists in achieving their objectives.”
TERMINAL 5 is an event for air travel:
“The airport terminal designed by Eero Saarinen at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York, was left vacant in 2001. The site reopens with an exhibition curated by Rachel K. Ward to respond to the transitory nature of travel, architecture and contemporary art. Sculpture, installation, sound, performance and other media take place within the luggage carousels, ticket counters, VIP lounges, staircases and the tunnel walkway. The terminal also hosts an airport media lounge, airport gift shop and ongoing “Arrivals,” a series of public events. October 1, 2004 through January 31, 2005. (via)
See also:
Airport designers are designing the kernel of a future city
The Airport of Crossed Destinies
UPDATE
Airworld: Design and Architecture for Air Travel
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
“Civilian air travel has not only created its own technical standards; it has also produced its own aesthetic: cabin interiors, airport architecture, airline corporate design, flight attendant uniforms, even on-board plates and cutlery. This Vitra Design Museum exhibition is dedicated to the ‘airworld’ encountered by passengers during flight from the perspective of the history of design and architecture.”
ANOTHER UPDATE
The Airport. 1948. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. Functions of the modern airport, showing all aspects of airline passenger service.
Flying Businessmen. 1953. Film Originals. How businesspeople can benefit from general aviation. With many shots of flying businessmen, airports and airport and aviation facilities in the Fifties.
6 1/2 Magic Hours. 1958. Pan American World Airways Films. The comfort and delight of transatlantic air travel at the beginning of the jet age.