Spacecraft Parking Here
With the increasing frequency of U.F.O. sightings and their growing presence in contemporary culture, the idea of accommodating extraterrestrial visitors with designated parking introduces a playful way to engage with interplanetary travel and visions of our future. My community-engaged art project, Spacecraft Parking Here, aims to explore and expand our understanding of space travel through artistic practice. At its most basic, my project is a flag with handwritten text that reads, Spacecraft Parking Here. When hung on a flagpole, the flag is activated creating temporary, aerial parking lots for visiting spaceships, U.F.O.s, shuttles, rockets and space probes. While the parking lots and corresponding official, neon parking passes may appear humorous at first glance, they aim to challenge us to consider alternative futures for our planet Earth. The project asks, is there anybody out there? And, do you need free parking for your spacecraft?
Get your free, official, Spacecraft Parking Pass. Available during Playful Encounters at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Murney Tower, Tourism Kingston, and Ahoy Rentals
Spacecraft Parking Passes available at On Paper, Curated by Sarah Oatley at The Grimsby Public Art Galley. November 23 - January 13. Opening reception December 5th.
Parkdale Elementary School, Toronto ON, 43.642905,-79.437291, 05 / 08 / 2019
Murney Tower Museum, Kingston ON, 44°13'20.21" N -76°29'26.10" W, 25 / 05 / 2024 -
Confederation Basin Marina, Kingston ON, 44° 13.718' N/ 076° 28.718'W, 19 / 07 / 2024 -
Ahoy Rentals, Kingston ON, Latitude: 44.22449, Longitude: -76.48508
It has been great participating in Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre’s group exhibition: Playful Encounters!
The theme Playful Encounters responds to various dialogues including imagination, spontaneity, joy, shared experiences, and curiosity. Modern Fuel selected this topic due to its wide scope of interpretation and due to our collective desire to embrace the unconventional, the unpredictable, and the unapologetically imaginative. Artists are invited to envision new forms of play that transcend the traditional boundaries of age imposed on us by society and encourage intergenerational connection. In Playful Encounters, art will become a playground for ideas, a space where curiosity is unleashed, and where the unexpected is celebrated. We hope Modern Fuel becomes a space where artists step outside their comfort zone, embrace the messiness of the creative process, and rediscover the transformative power of imagination.
My flag, Space Craft Parking Here will be activated both onsite at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre and offsite as a playful encounter.
Want to fly it?
We are inviting you to take part in our upcoming exhibition, Playful Encounters, by hosting the work, Space Craft Parking Here, by Elyse Longair. This is a site-specific artwork which we hope will travel around various local flag poles within the Greater Kingston Area creating aerial parking lots for spacecrafts. The flag, Space Craft Parking Here, is humorous at first glance, but hopes to challenge us to consider our imagined futures for our planet Earth.
As a host, you would be welcome to hang this flag on your flagpole for only a few days or up to a few weeks, between May 18th and July 20th. Please send Modern Fuel a message at director@modernfuel.org if you would like to fly Space Craft Parking Here!