Boeing Nº 737-800 in F♯m
MOST OF WHAT HAPPENS HAPPENS WITHOUT YOU.
(Pause) Don't you ever feel this way?
I WOULD, IF I COULD. THE WAY YOU DO.
BUT WAYS ABOUND AS IT IS.
A REFLECTION HERE, A WILDFIRE, OVER THERE.
And when did you learn to speak THIS way?
ONE AT A TIME.
What do you mean?
Concurrently: ode, elegy, satyre, Boeing Nº 737-800 in F♯m awakes and takes off, lands and falls asleep, in between cold sweats and time zones. Triangulating the distance from ground to body, moving though still, to sun, blinding though eyeless, amidst a text searching for sense in an economy of simulations, value suspended 38000 feet above the ground.
The anatomy of the world’s most popular commercial airplane serves as test tube to rehearse, under the common denominator of a possible fall, a motley set of anxieties, crossing borders, with and without passport. Mirror-play, annotated between the internal voice of a passenger, by the window, their dialogue with the Sun and a chorus of various interjections, from cockpit to exhaust pipe.
Text, production and direction Gonçalo Lamas
Original music George Bularca
Performers Carminda Soares, Inês Zinho Pinheiro, João Reis Moreira, MariaMiguel Rodrigues, Odete, Sara Fonseca da Graça
Voices Gonçalo Lamas (16F), Odete (Sun), Céu Costa (16D), Leonor Coelho (Lucas), Mafalda Lamas Pacheco, Paulo Santos (Flight attendants), Alex, Isabel Albuquerque, Caterina Avataneo, Daria Blum, Guendalina Cerruti, Virginia Cimino, Ruth Angel Edwards, Pedro Ferreira, Sofia Ferreira, Adam Ghallagher, Tabitha Haynes, Jess Heritage, Olive Kan, Kybor Karlsen, Lúcia Lamas, Duarte Martins, Pedro Martins, Arménio Pacheco, Sofia Rodrigues, Mary Vetisse, Joshua Waterson, Andrew Wyatt (Other passengers)
Sound editing Gonçalo Lamas e João Polido Gomes
Final mix João Polido Gomes
Fabrication and install Bruno Cancela, Pedro Ferreira, Vitor Soares
Lighting automation Thomas Allison
Graphic design Inês Mena Silva
Type design AALTAR System
Additional type Max Ryan, 'Tech', originally designed for Scripted Space
Cover Gonçalo Lamas and Inês Mena Silva with 'Inverted World Map' by Frans Blok
Support Câmara Municipal do Porto
WHY, ALL THIS TUNNEL VISION?
FROM THE DISTANCE, I MAY SEEM NO BIGGER THAN YOUR PUPIL
AND STILL BURN UPON NAKED CONTACT.
Like a summer day without sunglasses!
LIKE A SUMMER SECOND WITHOUT SUNGLASSES.
Boeing Nº 737-800 in F#m
live performance
50min
(Short video edit)
A MILLION, NINEHUNDRED AND EIGHTY EIGHT THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED SEPTILLION KILOGRAMS.
How many zeros is that?
TWENTY SIX. IT'S ROUNDED OFF.
Central gallery (Intallation view)
West gallery (Intallation view)
South gallery (Intallation view)
East gallery (Intallation view)
Well, good night then!
CAN’T SEE! BUT WE AFFORD SEEING.
THE CHARM OF THE WHOLE
THING IS UNDENIABLE.
Well, good night then!
NO, YOU KEEP THE NIGHT. AS A PRESENT.
Boeing Nº 737-800 in F♯m
2020
Presented four times between September 16th and 20th, at Culturgest Porto.
The inflight magazine which accompanied the show is available for purchase here.