Terminal

The airport was one of the iconic symbols of the modern age and is now a site where the contradictions and problems of the contemporary world circle and land. It has become a battle line in issues around globalisation, border control, state security, and individual freedom. Flight itself has lost its romance. It is now recognised as an environmental threat, subject to flygskam (flight shame). Terminal is an exhibition of international art made about the airport, not for it. Its artists variously address the airport as site, form, or symbol--often by subverting its iconography and processes, or tackling its histories and politics... Terminal is laid out as a kind of imaginary airport with zones dedicated to Arrivals, Screening, the Runway, and Departures. It is less about airports than with tracking some of the ways that contemporary art has contested the image, experience, and idea of the airport--often as a gateway to tackle the most pressing issues of our time.