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About Flight Paths
"I have finished my weekly supermarket shop, stocking up on provisions for my three kids, my husband, our dog and our cat. I push the loaded trolley across the car park, battling to keep its wonky wheels on track. I pop open the boot of my car and then for some reason, I have no idea why, I look up, into the clear blue autumnal sky. And I see him. It takes me a long moment to figure out what I am looking at. He is falling from the sky. A dark mass, growing larger quickly. I let go of the trolley and am dimly aware that it is getting away from me but I can't move, I am stuck there in the middle of the supermarket car park, watching, as he hurtles toward the earth. I have no idea how long it takes - a few seconds, an entire lifetime - but I stand there holding my breath as the city goes about its business around me until...
He crashes into the roof of my car."
The car park of Sainsbury's supermarket in Richmond, southwest London, lies directly beneath one of the main flight paths into Heathrow Airport. Over the last decade, on at least five separate occasions, the bodies of young men have fallen from the sky and landed on or near this car park. All these men were stowaways on flights from the Indian subcontinent who had believed that they could find a way into the cargo hold of an airplane by climbing up into the airplane wheel shaft. It is thought that none could have survived the journey, killed by either the tremendous heat generated by the airplane wheels on the runway, crushed when the landing gear retracts into the plane after take off, or frozen to death once the airplane reaches altitude.
'Flight Paths' seeks to explore what happens when lives collide - an airplane stowaway and the fictional suburban London housewife, quoted above. With your help, this project will tell their stories.
For more information go to the About page on our blog (see menu tab above, click on Blog).
Original Article
Here is the url for the original Guardian newspaper article, 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' (2001) that put the idea for this project into Kate's head: http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4223470-103680,00.html
Documented Deaths
Here's an updated list of names of documented refugee deaths from United Against Racism:
http://www.unitedagainstracism.org/pdfs/actual_listofdeath.pdf
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Kate Pullinger's blog
Interview on Book Army Jul 02, 2009 08:58:21 GMTThere’s an interview with me up on Book Army, part of the Virtual Book Tour I’m doing with some terrific bloggers in Canada and the UK, talking about ‘The Mistress of Nothing’, as well as some of my digital work. PLUS, there’s a competition to win free copies of my book
BBC Radio Book Club Choice Jul 01, 2009 11:07:39 GMTCharlie Crocker’s Book Club – BBC Radio Solent – has chosen ‘The Mistress of Nothing’ for July – yippee! Will be doing a live interview on Monday 13 July.
In other related news… just in the German rights for ‘The Mistress of Nothing’ have been
Flight Paths: 5. Paths Crossing Jun 26, 2009 07:54:46 GMT
We hope you like all five of the new ‘Flight Paths’ stories.
For more information about Refugee Week, go to http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/
To view our first four stories, click on the images in the posts below. To view 5. Paths Crossing, click on the image above or go to http://www.f
Flight Paths: 4. Dark Mass Jun 26, 2009 07:52:01 GMT
Apologies for the one day delay in posting the fourth story – was away from my computer for the day.
We hope you like the stories. For more information about Refugee Week, go to http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/
To view our first three stories, click on the images in the posts below. To vie
Flight Paths: 3. Harriet Driving Jun 24, 2009 08:56:57 GMT
We hope you like the stories. For more information about Refugee Week, go to http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/
To view our first two stories, click on the images in the posts below. To view 3. Harriet Driving, click on the image above or go to http://www.flightpaths.net/stories/yacubattheairport
Chris Joseph's blog
Call for entries – International Festival For Arts and Media Yokohama 2009 – deadline 31 July 2009 Jul 01, 2009 08:06:54 GMTCall for entries:
International Festival For Arts and Media Yokohama 2009
CREAM Competition
http://ifamy.jp/
Organizer:
The Organizing Committee of the International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009
Purpose of CREAM Competition:
International Festival For Arts and Media Yokohama 2009, a pio
Call For Entries – Award New Media Foundation Liedts-Meesen – deadline 1 November 2009 Jul 01, 2009 07:59:44 GMTwww.zebrastraat.be
At the occasion of the Update III exhibition that is organised as a Biennial event at the Zebrastraat Gent, the Liedts-Meesen Foundation will award for the second time, a work by a living artist distinguishing himself or herself in the field of digital art. This award will consist
ISEA2010 RUHR call for submissions – deadline 15 September 2009 Jun 27, 2009 12:08:36 GMTThe submission platform of ISEA2010 RUHR is now open at
http://www.isea2010ruhr.org/submissions
ISEA2010 RUHR is the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, a major conference and exhibition event for art, media and technology, scheduled for 20-29 August 2010 in the German Ruhr region (Dortm
SuperMassiveBlackHole ‘Other Worlds’ – deadline 1 August 2009 Jun 26, 2009 08:56:32 GMTSuperMassiveBlackHole is dedicated to the photographic imagery resulting from the time-based processes found in many interdisciplinary art practices today. The magazine seeks to engage and represent respective projects and ideas which utilise Photography (digital or analogue), New Media (high or
Flight Paths: Paths Crossing Jun 26, 2009 08:00:53 GMT
To view our fifth story, Paths Crossing, go to http://www.flightpaths.net/stories/pathscrossing.html or click on the image above.
Previous stories:
1. Yacub in Dubai
2. Yacub at the Airport
3. Harriet Driving
4. Dark Mass
Find more information about ‘Flight Paths’ here.
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