Under the direction of Jonas Mekas & Wendy Dorsett, Anthology Film Archives has organized a series of films centering on the year 1962, when the TWA Terminal first opened. AFA has also selected a set of films about air travel and aviation in 16 mm, video and other formats that will be presented inside the original Constellation Club discothèque lounge.
Eno created “Music for Airports” in 1978 as a project in ambient sound. He is invited to discuss this project in relation to the airport experience. His appearance will also feature a live performance.
Oshima is a Japanese artist working with sound and performance, currently completing several works for the municipal government of Paris. His project for Terminal 5, entitled "Hey, They're Gonna Play Music!", will feature sound broadcast from a remote controlled helicopter.
Engineer Abba Tor worked on the construction of Terminal 5 alongside Eero Saarinen. He will deliver a key-note address on the realities of building the TWA terminal.
To celebrate New York's 2nd annual Architecture week, Adam Kleinman and Sarah Herda of Storefront for Art and Architecture present an architecture panel discussion at Terminal 5. Centering on the topic of airport design, the panel will feature architectural critic and historian Alastair Gordon, urbanist Sandford Kwinter, and architect Chris Sharples of SHoP, among others.
Hoduran-American artist Duben Duckworth Canales works with photography, video and found’ materials, specifically, art storage crates. Combining transgression and investigation as a rogue journalist/spy artist, Canales captures museum assets in transit. For his piece at Terminal 5, he uses all manner of fake identities and ploys to remove crates from their usual context of museum storage and place them in the airport terminal.
Dilworth’s installation seeks to promote time travel as a viable alternative form of transportation
McGraw is a Kansas City-based artist and writer. He is also director of one of the Midwest’s leading art space’s, Paragraph. For Arrivals, McGraw will create a sound installation, transmitting ghosts between the vacant, former TWA headquarters in Kansas City and Terminal 5.
Chalayan, the über-original fashion designer who constantly pushes creative boundaries, has shifted into a new realm in this work commissioned by the Tribe Art Commission. With “Place to Passage” Chalayan has conceived a multi-screen film installation, taking the viewer on a virtual journey in a specially designed futuristic vehicle. Speeding smoothly through raw urban streets to icy wilderness, the female protagonist cocooned inside the pod rests meditatively as the animated dreamlike landscapes pass her by: a private journey in a symbolic world.
Westphal is a photographer. For the first time, he will venture into the realm of artistic installation. His work for Terminal 5 will involve selected fish undergoing a quarantine process.
Anthology Film Archives Film Screening Lounge, 2-4pm
Duque is a Columbian internet artist who will present a live internet streaming of Chris Marker’s classic film about airports, La Jette. The broadcast will be coordinated between JFK Airport and a variety of other airport locations around the world by other artists.
Swiss curator and author Hans-Ulrich Obrist is well known for his multi-volume book, Interviews, and for exhibitions at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, the Serpentine Gallery in London, and PS1 in New York. For Terminal 5, he will be moderating a discussion with between artists in the Terminal 5 exhibition.
Snyder presents a video installation.
Terminal 5 celebrates the airport gift shop! Designers from the gift shop will present artworks that will be incorporated into the exhibition space and Tobias Wong offers a 50% more sale in the shop!
Featured Designers:
A collective of young designers based in New York, Surface to Air creates interactive design, music, store designs and other productions for corporations and private clients. For Terminal \5, StA will create an inhabitable travel space within the airport.
Salzer will lead a group of designers in the creation of a suitcase for travel. From Dior to Ju$t Another Rich Kid, all types of clothing will be brought together with one agenda travel!
Curated by Katherine Grayson, this installation will involve new sculptural work by Kawaii, created specifically for Terminal 5.
Dr. Adnan Morshed of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and Dr. David Harvey of CUNY Graduate Center moderate a panel on the geo-political ramifications of transportation.
Agnieska Kurant presents “The Exhibition that Didn’t Exist” with John Armledder, Stefan Bruggeman, Cerith Wyn Evans, Liam Gillick, Bertrand Lavier, Xavier Veilhan
“Re-Direct” is emerging artist Saura’s attempt to alter each passageway and doorway at the Terminal 5 exhibition. Sometimes only with a piece of string and other times with complete obstructions, he attempts to make each person at the airport realize we are always traveling.
Ikeda, one of T5’s major artists, hosts an apocalyptic’ sound and music performance with guests.