Ærotomania:
Flight Deck

"Aerotomania: The Airplane in a Time of Uncertainty”: According to Marshall McLuhan “the airplane is an extension of the body”. Taking this as its base, this video investigates how the airplane is structured like a language. In the wake of the airline crisis during this pandemic, as both as a love letter and a lament to the airplane – through a border-blurring of poetry, analysis and vispo, it speaks to ways both individuals and meaning get transported to multiple and sometimes unexpected destinations; how the airplane becomes a symbol of hope, flying through a variety of zones, registers, soaring to higher and higher levels, leading to radically transformative possibilities of pleasure, power and promise.