Key details
Time
- 12pm – 8pm
Location
- Battersea
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The Hangar, Studio Building, Howie Street, Battersea SW11 4A
Price
- Free
Who can attend
- Everyone
Type
- Exhibition
Since the development of flight early in the 20th century when flying captured the collective imagination as a technological project, its potential has been firmly harnessed by patriarchy.
This project engages artistic and theoretical propositions that remove flight from monopolisation by militarist domination and commercial profit. It proposes to reimagine flight from a feminist perspective, as a protective planetary capacity, and through the ‘hapticity’ of textiles, asking how we can reimagine flight away from the military-industrial complex and capitalised hardware, and why it is important to do so.
Reimagining flight through materiality of textiles and fibre-based installations, this project suggests rerouting the trajectory of flight towards more intimate, embodied realms, where the liberatory qualities of flight are reclaimed through the domestic territory that reimagines flight and its technologies as an intrinsic part of the planetary eco-system that needs to be cared for, and not the frontier to be conquered. I argue that dreamworlds of flight could be channelled, through the softening, haptic qualities of thinking-through-hand- making, into empowering women to reimagine their role in relation to technologies, where instead of the automation of labour, visions of a post-human feminist futures can be built around eco-communality and post-technological solidarity.
Private View: Friday 3 October, 6–8pm
