Runways of the World

Airports are places of transition that enable rapid movement between locations across the globe. Each runway is a site where airspace is ordered, the ground space is equally controlled. Viewed from above the runways and terminals display a variation determined by function. Yet this functionality creates an expressive dimension that view runways as markers of places as well as relics of civilisations. In this project runways have been mapped and translated in a variety of methods that suggest a linguistic imprint on the earths surface.

These works are a continuation of a project from which these ideas of poetics prosaics and politics overlap. Runways are shown in random relation to one another in this book and suggest one may travel anywhere. Random relations between Jordan airport and Beirut Lebanon and Shark Bay Australia and Mumbia and so on. These unstructured interconnections may one day realise a promise of coexistence.

THE BOOK

The Book consists of pencil drawings of made by hand. The runways are scaled from an arial view at 10,000 ft. Each shows the taxi way, runways and terminals. This book has been created on the invitation of Ala Younis . This is the original work of Jon Tarry produced in association with Stephanie Reisch.

These are the runways in the book, they are random choices.
1. Parrapurdoo
2. Venice
3. Bunbury
4. UNAA
5. Lima
6. UNAE
7. Uluru
8. Unnamed
9. Reykjavic, Keflavic
10. UNA
11. UNEA
12. Mumbia
13. Jandakot
14. Basle
15. Ben Gurion
16. Karachi
17. Luton
18. UNA
19. Graz
20. Warsaw
21. Chicago
22. UNA
23. CDG
24. Ontario
25. Denver
26. Tunisia Carthage
27. Beirut Rafic Hariri
28. Amman, Queen Alia
29. Curtin’
30. Shark Bay

My aim is to develop this project more working on runways of the near east, remote and central, active and abandoned.

DVD

Contains two film works of 4.2 minutes duration.
Para d two
Para d three
The film is taken from the aircraft graveyard in central USA, the soundscape by Ivo Reisch expands the mood of human frailty.

Runway drawings and sculpture.
Beirut and Warsaw, drawing.
Runway Markings, drawing.
Runway Sculpture of the wall, Ben Gurion aluminium.
Runway sculptures, rubber, Washington Baghdad.

Handcrafted silver runway

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