lastcall

miércoles, 26 de septiembre de 2012

martes, 25 de septiembre de 2012

Letzter Aufruf en 1aSpace

Letzter Aufruf. 2012

Algunas imágenes de la inauguración de Letzter Aufruf en 1a Space (Hong Kong)

viernes, 21 de septiembre de 2012

Letzter Aufruf lands in Hong Kong.

From now and only during the weekend, you are available to Letzter Aufruf: Hong Kong edition 2012 here.

Letzter Aufruf

Also available on: Destinationberlin2012: Letzter Aufruf

LASTCALL, is a personal project as well as an open project which was born as a reflection of many hours spent at airports waiting to fly out. It is a reflection about the use of the new public spaces. LastCall analyzes how limitis between public and private space disappear in an airport terminal, using the photo language.

Destination Berlin is a a group show that reveals six individual glances and expressions on the theme of identity, through a common platform: the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunion of the German city. The exhibition shows the work of 6 international artists: Jacqueline Kooter, (Amsterdam), Shirley Wiebe (Canada), Susana López F. (Gijón), Thea Jentjes (Amsterdam), Wai Kit Lam (Hong Kong) and Wai Yi Lai (Hong Kong).

Over the last weeks we have met each one of the artists who take part in Destination Berlin through some photos have been taken for this special edition, Letzter Aufruf. Destination Berlin, 2012.

One again, as usual in this trip, Photoarte Komite will join us.

jueves, 20 de septiembre de 2012

Sin comentarios.

Ryanair cambia su política de combustible: sus aviones volarán con 15 minutos más de fuel.

Puedes leer toda la información aquí: 15 minutos más de fuel

Kai Tak Airport (IATA: HKG, ICAO: VHHH)

Kai Tak Airport (IATA: HKG, ICAO: VHHH) was the international airport of Hong Kong from 1925 until 1998. It was officially known as the Hong Kong International Airport from 1954 to 6 July 1998, when it was closed and replaced by the new Hong Kong International Airport. It is often known as Hong Kong Kai Tak International Airport, or simply Kai Tak, to distinguish it from its successor which is often referred to as Chek Lap Kok Airport.

A view of the old airport (Kai Tak) by Wai Kit Lam.

With numerous skyscrapers and mountains located to the north and its only runway jutting out into Victoria Harbour, landings at the airport were dramatic to experience and technically demanding for pilots. The History Channel program Most Extreme Airports ranked it as the 6th most dangerous airport in the world.

jueves, 13 de septiembre de 2012

Un aeropuerto flotante sobre el río Támesis.

El estudio Gensler propone que el sexto aeropuerto de Londres sea flotante, en mitad del estuario del Támesis. El aeropuerto contaría con tres terminales en tierra firme y cuatro pistas sobre el agua que se podrían reorientar según las necesidades.

Puedes leer la noticia completa aquí:

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/09/13/cultura/1347532872.html?a=497a09ebd9e8295075d0df25b1dad7bc&t=1347548618&numero=

miércoles, 12 de septiembre de 2012

LastCall: Hong Kong.

啟德機場

香港國際機場

赤鱲角機場

Hong Kong International Airport (IATA: HKG, ICAO: VHHH) is the main airport in Hong Kong. It is colloquially known as Chek Lap Kok Airport (赤鱲角機場), being built on the island of Chep Lap Kok by land reclamation, and also to distinguish it from its predecessor, the closed Kai Tak Airport.

The airport opened for commercial operations in 1998, replacing Kai Tak, and is an important regional trans-shipment centre, passenger hub and gateway for destinations in Mainland China (with over 40 destinations) and the rest of Asia.

Animación Irene López: www.ireneanimates.com

Work ready to hang.

I would like to say Thanks to Wai for her helping and for the photo.

LASTCALL - LETZTER AUFRUF

Un blog sobre aeropuertos.

Los aeropuertos son estaciones para los pasajeros de las aerolíneas y para el traslado de mercancías, donde los aviones reciben combustible, mantenimiento y reparaciones. Son espacios públicos y de tránsito, las estaciones de transporte más complejas y dinámicas debido a la importancia que ha adquirido el transporte aéreo en los últimos años.

La Real Academia de La Lengua los define como: “Terreno llano provisto de un conjunto de pistas, instalaciones y servicios destinados al tráfico regular de aviones.”

Pero más allá de la definición de la Real Academia de La Lengua, un aeropuerto es un conglomerado de culturas, es como el limbo, un espacio de tránsito donde todos están esperando por ir a otro lugar, es un lugar de contradicciones. Es un no-lugar. Es tiempo muerto. Es la última habitación de espera. Y, así todo, es el centro de la cultura contemporánea.

LastCall es un proyecto personal pero es también una invitación a que artistas y no-artistas compartan a través del blog sus experiencias y temores, sus ilusiones y enfados, a que reflexionen sobre el uso que se hace de estos nuevos espacios públicos. para analizar mediante el uso del lenguaje fotográfico la forma en que se difuminan los límites entre espacio público y privado en la terminal de un aeropuerto. Es una invitación a que expresen lo qué sienten cuándo están en un aeropuerto esperando.

En Diciembre de 2010 se celebró la primera exposición de LastCall en la Galeria PhotoarteKomite. El 21 de abril de 2011, LastCall aterrizó en Londres de la mano de Viewfinder Photography Gallery. En noviembre de 2011, LastCall aterrizó en Berlín para realizar una investigación fotográfica de dos aeropuertos que están a punto de desaparecer: Tegel y Schönefeld.

An airport is a tract of levelland where aircrafts land and take off, usually equipped with hard-surfaced landing strips, a control tower, hangars and refueling facilities, as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo. Airports are public and busy spaces, they are the most complex and dynamics station owing to the importance of the air traffic in our times.

But an airport is much more than that. An airport is a conglomeration of all cultures, it is a place of floating bodies of people in limbo, a place where everyone is waiting to be somewhere else, it is a place of contradictions. It is a so called “No-Land”, where dead time seems constantly present. An airport is the ultimate waiting room. And yet, it is a center of contemporary culture, a place where identity is scrutinized thoroughly, and also shed like a snakeskin. We become anonymous and homogeneous.

Nowdays most of the airports are big terminals where we can do a lot of things instead of flying in or out of. Airports are not only a station for passengers, with most of them being amazing architectural buildings, they are a new kind of building, something in between a station and a mall. Like big cities outside a normal city. The first and last view of such city, area, or country. Airports are places where people from everywhere can meet.

LASTCALL, is a personal project as well as an open project which was born as a reflection of many hours spent at airports waiting to fly out. Artists and non-artists have the opportunity to send their photos and opinions about the time spent at airports around the world. I invite them to reflect about the use of the new public spaces, to analyze by photo language how limits between public and private space disappear in an airport terminal.

LastCall was born on last 10th, July, 2010. It was born as a temporary which was going to finish last 7th, february, 2011, but a great public response, an individual exhibition in Ph´a´ke Bilbao: Ph'a'ke . photoartekomite another one in the Viewfinder Gallery in London in April. Last November, LastCall landed in Berlin to give us some views from inside two airports, both of them almost disappeared: Tegel and Schönefeld.