Extracts from the suicide note of Sannomiya Fumio from October 1971.
From the film The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories (2014), directed by Haruhiko Daishima and Kôshirô Ôtsu, this sequence featuring the photography of Kazuo Kitai.
You are warmly invited to a chat about airports proposed to be operational in and around where we live in the near future.
The chat, at Dhibri Studio, will begin with a presentation where I will share some of my work and research related to the Navi Mumbai International Airport. I hope this will provide a context for points of comparison and disjuncture between Navi Mumbai and Noida International Airports and open discussion with those present to share their experiences and ideas about living alongside the idea of the megaproject and being in close proximity to its physical emergence.
When: Sunday, January 19, 2025 | 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Where: 3rd floor A622, Block A, Sector-19, Noida (near Sector 18 and Sector 16 metro stations)
Light snacks will be provided. Seats are limited and we would appreciate your rsvp.
@thedhibri@soumyadav09@paribartana_mohanty
What does flight leave in its wake?
A couple of weeks ago the ‘pehla vimaan’ or ‘first flight’ landed on the site that is to become the Navi Mumbai International Airport. The first flight is a milestone that carries symbolic value in the course of the project. It draws from maritime traditions, where a ship’s maiden voyage is a test of its seaworthiness and a celebrated new beginning. However, for the airport, this symbolism shifts from the craft to the port, underscoring the site’s readiness to handle flights. Realising flight on the site signifies a conquest over the land itself - its culture, complexities and myriad challenges. The first flight event, complete with dignitaries and live commentary, seemed less like a true test run and more like a staged spectacle.
The image of the first flight is one of many around the airport currently indulging in a celebratory development rhetoric that forgets or relishes the rapid changes in land use and drastic reformation of the social and ecological makeup of the site in the airport’s long lead up as much as the potential for fiasco or even outright disaster that has been realised in other infrastructure projects too often recently. These celebratory images compelled a revisit of other images that have been left behind in the airport's protracted gestation period. The dusty renders reveal intention, aspiration, dreams, unfulfilled promises, fabulation, spam and things that never can quite be, but nonetheless emerge as triggers toward the urbanisation of the city’s periphery.
आपली जमीन आपलं गाव, नवी मुंबई विमानतळाला फक्त दि. बा. पाटलांचच नाव
आमचं डोंगर गेलं, मिठाशी भरलेलं आगार गेलं
बयलं गेली बयील गाड्या गेल्या, म्हावरं गेलं म्हाव-याशा खड्या गेल्या
गायी गेल्या वासरं गेली, भाताशी भरलेली खासरं गेली
घरं गेली... गाव गेली 😥
आत बाहेरशी येऊन उपरं आय बोलतन.... "यांची नाव सुध्दा काढून टाका"
भूमिपुत्र बांधवा आता तरी हो जागा... आता तरी हो जागा 🙏
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Conversation and correspondence with artist and writer @alanavhunt , live from Miriwoong country.
Titled 'Tensions', this is the fifth in a series of six texts Alana is undertaking as @carriageworks inaugural Writer in Residence. The texts open a network of ideas expanding from the bodies of work 'All the violence within this' and 'In the national interest' exhibited as part of The National.
The first four texts were interesting as, I encourage you to check them out at Carriagework's journal. You can find the link for this one in the bio.
लोकनेते दि . बा . पाटील साहेबांचे नाव आंतरराष्ट्रीय विमानतळाला दिलेच पाहिजे ! आपली बुधवार , १३ जानेवारी २०२१ , अस्मिता , सकाळी ११ वाजता साहेबांच्या आपले दैवत जयंतीचे औचित्य साधून आपण उलवे नोड येथील सेक्टर २३ मधील वहाळ जिल्हा परिषद शाळेच्या प्रांगणात नवी मुंबई आंतरराष्ट्रीय विमानतळाला लोकनेते दि . बा . पाटील साहेबांचे नाव दिलेच पाहिजे , असा निर्धार करण्यासाठी यावे , ही नम्र विनंती . आता उठवू सारे रान , आता पेटवू सारे रान दिबांच्या नावासाठी लावू पणाला प्राण ... ! निमंत्रक : राजेंद्र पाटील , कवी पुंडलिक म्हात्रे , विजयशेठ शिरढोणकर , चेतनशेठ साळवी , कांतीलाल कडू
