GeoHumanities Creative Commissions: Flying Boat

Connolly, Stephen and Curtis, Layla (2020) GeoHumanities Creative Commissions: Flying Boat. [Video]

Creators:
Connolly, Stephen and Curtis, Layla
Description/Abstract:

The Empire Flying Boat was a short-lived air service connecting Great Britain with its colonies in operation from 1937 to 1940 and for a short period post war. It offered fast (for the time) passenger travel and mail services following sea routes to Africa, the Far East, and Australia. The “Flying Boat” represented a desired mobility for 48 weekly passengers that was ahead of its time, yet unrecognisable to recent contemporary mobility. And yet the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 has changed global mobility and aviation in ways yet to unfold. “Flying Boat” is a GeoHumanities project concerned with the spatial and mobile imaginary enacted by this service projected into this uncertain time for aviation.

Item Type:
Art/Design Item
Date:
16 May 2020
Funders:
Royal Holloway University of London/University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Projects or Series:
GeoHumanities Creative Commissions
Schools:
School of Film, Media & Performing Arts
Related URLs:
Depositing User:
Dr Stephen Connolly
Date Deposited:
14 Aug 2020 15:54
Last Modified:
04 Mar 2022 04:30
Connolly, Stephen:
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6419-0171
Art/Design Categories:
Video
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5497

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