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Documentation of the 2nd International Artists Airshow, presented by The Arts Catalyst and Landscape+Arts Network Services, 30 June 2007 at Gunpowder Park, Sewardstone Road, Waltham Abbey, Essex, UK.

This was a day of international artists projects reflecting the explosive and ephemeral nature of Gunpowder Park  a former testing ground for high explosives - and investigating the artists' almost impossible dream of flight.

Australian artist Ben Blakebroughs one-person flying craft Winged Self points at a lost future of personal flight. Ruth Maclennan (UK) created a choreographed performance with flying eagle, bugler and the crowd, across the testing ground of Gunpowder Park. Anne Bean, Mark Anderson and Nick Sales (UK) created a new black cloud to mingle with those lurking overhead, and a white mist which swept away across the park. Around the park, installations by Sonia Khurana (India) and HeHe - Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen (France) could be discovered. Rachel Chapman (UK) mapped the air by collecting airborne spores from peoples clothing. Environmental artist Brandon Ballengee (USA) led bug walks in the park. The event was accompanied by a symposium 'The Aesthetics of Impossibility' featuring the Airshow artists and including the premiere of Simon Faithfulls new work Gravity Sucks, as well as artists Janette Paris and Usman Haque, and cloudspotting expert Gavin Pretor-Pinney. The event was MCd by Simon Munnery

More information about the event - [FLAG:OLD_SITE] http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/space/airshow2.html