From Friday 22 August till Sunday 24 August, I will circle around the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, 49 kilometers.

I’m inviting you to come with me. 

Both events will take place in the context of the WAB.

The idea

1)      Airports are very similar all around the world. Regional differences are reduced to the souvenirs that you can buy in the gift shop. In terms of the geographical landscape, it is a non-place.

2)      The immediate surroundings of airports, however, differ greatly.

3)      The airport cuts a hole in the landscape. That’s why it is represented as a shaded surface on the map. A hole that is not, like a rabbit hole, going down into a bottomless black, but one that is going up, into an infinite blue.

4)      In order to draw a void, you have to draw the non-void that is surrounding it. In order to describe a hole, you have to circumscribe it.

5)      Walking transforms a line on the map into a discovery. What is discovered can be described.

6)      In order to discover and describe an airport, you have to walk around it.

The plan

1)      I’m inviting you to walk with me around Charleroi (Brussels South) en Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airports. I will have studied the route on maps, but I will not have done it beforehand. We will discover the circle together.

2)      After the walks around Brussels-Zaventem, Düsseldorf-Lohausen, and London Heathrow, this will be the fourth and fifth in a series of airport walks.

3)      We will not walk directly around the fence, but along the roads and paths that are close to the airport.

4)      The focus will be on the immediate surroundings: houses, nature, people, signs…

5)      There is one important basic rule: ignore the airport! Don’t mention the planes!

6)      We will describe our discovery together, with pictures, titles and short pieces of text.

If you're interested, write me on [log in to unmask] and I can e-mail you more details about the concept and the practicalities.

To inscribe for Charleroi, please leave your e-mailaddress on the following Doodle:

http://doodle.com/xeh6re5dhqemp5d6#table

Art Laboratory Nadine will pay the cost of the hotels for Circling Around Paris airport, for the first 10 participants (Campanile and Ibis, €63 in total). To inscribe for Paris and enjoy the hotels for free, please leave your e-mailaddress on the following Doodle: http://doodle.com/vib2pk6aftyx9ruf

Once those 10 tickets are sold out, participants will have to arrange the hotel themselves. In that case, leave your e-mailaddress here: http://doodle.com/apn57h7ykxfk8acw

The total number of participants for each of both walks will be limited to 19.

I hope to see you there,

Bruno

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