Airplane Mode (2019) is Jaakko Pallasvuo‘s meditation on flight shame and other less than soothing responses that taking a flight now tends to elicit in us. But what this special-edition zine – produced by Pallasvuo, Kunsthalle Kohta and PUBLICS for Today Is Our Tomorrow festival  – really does is to address this ‘us’ and strip it rather bare. Who are we to ponder our options as it they were free choices? And how can we assume that flight is even an option anymore?

As a Finnish artist I am interested in nature. In the encounter between the Sea and the Forest. I place my body on the line, and experience the ecological urgencies with corporeal intensity. I make performances here on the island, and invite diverse practitioners to share their discursive knowledge with me. Together we are, we practice Just Being, in the magical Finnish way, on this pier overlooking a dying ecosystem. We light the fire in the cabin stove only using torn pages from Bruno LaTour and Donna Haraway books.

Read and download Airplane Mode here
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