Critical Airspace

Critical Airspace is a project in the early stages of development which will explore creative and critical responses to controlled and restricted airspaces across the UK and the world. It will reimagine airspace structures as novel spatial assemblages or ‘non-spaces’
to investigate counter-narratives of aviation orthodoxy. However,
it will also focus on the creative and speculative possibilities for airspace design - as architecture, as vast sculptures, as paradoxical, digital and virtual formations. It will support certain creative outputs which might include the digital design of temporary volumes of airspace for cultural and experimental events or for projects relating to contested places. As a kind of collision between land art and digital art, the Critical Airspace project will propose the creation of invisible, geographically- defined artworks that respond to the specificities and politics of place, albeit ones that are virtually present in the sky. The project will aim to activate novel and creative airspaces in the real world for limited periods, as sites of criticality and resistance, and as zones for alternative, superterrestrial practices.