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| ROAM An imaginative journey through, in and around the possibilities of air travel. |
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| AWARDS: NOMINATIONS: “Few seconds in life are more releasing than those in which a plane ascends to the sky…accompanied by the controlled rage of the engines we rise fluently into the atmosphere and an immense horizon opens up across which we can wander without impediment. A journey which on earth would have taken us an afternoon can be accomplished with an infinitesimal movement of the eye…” Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel Are modern air passengers the contemporary equivalent of angels, bearing messages across the globe, or nomadic wanderers for whom home is no longer bound by national boundaries? Inspired by a diversity of texts from Michel Serres, Pico Iyer, Alain de Botton and many others, as well as testimonies from refugees and airport workers, Roam combined a multinational company of ten performers together with a large group of non-professional participants aged five to eighty-five. ROAM begins as the last flight leaves, that liminal time when airports become something other, a twilight world of memories, travellers’ detritus, ghosts and exhoes of tearful and joyous conversations. ROAM reflects on national identity, the gross inequalities in our world, and the politics of terror and also on flight itself as a symbol of human achievement. "This partnership shows how the arts can transform the physical working environment and in so doing alter the experiences and motivation of a workforce." Barclay Price |
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