Women on Aeroplanes by Annett Busch

Women on Aeroplanes—agency for flying ideas is an artistic research project, based on a framework and network that is necessarily constantly evolving and changing. it aims to gain a broader understanding of what independence and interdependence means. Looking closely at the long history of transatlantic networks and the struggles for liberation, predating the process of independence on the African continent (and elsewhere), the project explores how women were always central to such networks and struggles, in which they played multiple roles. Their stories are however hardly told and their faces remain widely invisible. We aim to not only frame their various and heterogeneous contributions, politically and artistically, but also create new parameters and premises of narratives. To recall the notion of independence today necessarily means to address the gap between formal independence and a process of decolonisation that was simultaneously national and intranational, transnational and international and which remains, in many ways, incomplete. The project's title is borrowed loosely from Kojo Laing's critically acclaimed second novel Woman of the Aeroplanes, written in 1988. With its deconstructive syntax and implosion of genres, the novel sets the tone for a historical narrative, in which subordinate subject-object relations are negated. Laing’s method of speculative fiction writing can be seen as a making-of-theory using other means. As a reference point, it opens a pathway to a new grammar that makes re-visiting and re-writing history possible.

INFLIGHT MAGAZINE

# 1 FILTER, EDITING | # 2 SEARCH, RESEARCH | # 3 IN CONVERSATION | # 4 STOPOVER |

# 5 LINES OF CONSENT | # 6 THERE ARE THINGS THAT LAW DOESN'T COVER

Paper copies can be found and read in the following libraries: Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, 119 Jan Smuts Ave, Parkwood 2193 // Goethe-Institut Kigali, 13, Avenue Paul VI/KN 27 Street Kiyovu // Iriba Centre for Multimedia Heritage, 9 KN 78 St, Kigali // Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, Schlossstraße 31, 63065 Offenbach/M // Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt/Main, Adickesallee 1 // The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ // And can be bought in the following book shops: Hobscotch Reading Room, Kurfürstenstraße 14/Haus B, 10785 Berlin // pro qm, Almstadtstr. 48, 10119 Berlin // Ark Books, Møllegade 10, 2200 København.

A series of Inflight Magazines travel along the route of the unfolding international project. Experimenting with the format, each issue becomes a light container for research-in-progress; at times a flying museum built upon each iteration of the project and connecting to the next. Download and pdf distribution below and via library stack.

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