BOEING N. 737-800 IN F# MINOR

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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.

(...)What do you mean?

(...) 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.

DESCRIPTION

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.

The text printed in the pages of this inflight magazine was first presented as a live performance, at Culturgest Porto, between the 16th and 20th of September, 2020.

The publication is on sale for £5 (plus shipping) and all proceeds will be donated to Solidariedade Imigrante, an association defending the rights of immigrants in Portugal.

On Sunday, September 27th, it was launched at the 6th edition of the Artist Self-Publishers' Fair, presented entirely online for the first time, in association with the ICA.

You can purchase the book via Paypal. Choose from the shipping options below:

BOOKSHOPS

The book is available for purchase locally at:

Poetria, Porto
Matéria Prima, Porto
Livraria ZDB, Lisboa
After 8 Books, Paris
Good Press, Glasgow
Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam

If you are intereted in selling the book, please get in touch through the contact form below.

A MILLION, NINEHUNDRED AND EIGHTY EIGHT THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED SEPTILLION KILOGRAMS.

How many zeros is that?

TWENTY SIX.

IT'S ROUNDED OFF.

CREDITS

TEXT, PRODUCTION AND DIRECTION
Gonçalo Lamas

PERFORMANCE

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

PUBLICATION

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

WEBSITE
Gonçalo Lamas

Performance venue kindly provided by Culturgest.

With support from Câmara Municipal do Porto.

Porto.

You didn’t or can’t?

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

CONTACT

For further information, please use the contact form below, with your name, e-mail address and message.