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Aeronaut, 2011
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Once upon a time, five children met a sand fairy in a garden. They wished for wings, one of humankind’s eternal desires. My father made me these wings – yes, you’ve heard my story – but I didn’t fly to close to the sun and melt the wax, plunging to my death. Instead I flew high above the crystal clouds and froze into a solid, icy thing that constantly orbits the earth. Copy and out.
Aeronaut, devised during my lengthy residency at the Library of Congress and previewed at 25SG in Newcastle, is an illustrated performance lecture. An unreliable narrator’s account of the history of aeronautics from Icarus to Aurora, it covers our forays into the air by wing, balloon, jet and rocket using the language of World War Two pilot’s transmissions and aerial photographs.
