ADAIN AVION will incorporate the fuselage of an abandoned DC9 airplane that has been recycled and transformed into a mobile art space.
 
This silver ‘wingless bird’ will travel across Wales ‘nesting’ in different locations, arriving at each site pulled by a team of local sportspeople, youth groups and other members of the community.
 
The work functions as a social sculpture that comes to life in response to the people who occupy the space.
 
It will visit Swansea, Ebbw Vale and Llandudno, nesting in each place for one week before traveling to Broughton for a celebratory finale. Its ‘migration’ to each location will be an integral part of the project, with the public encouraged to document its journey through online media such as Flickr and Google Maps.
 
In each location the project will engage the community in a festivity marking the arrival of the plane in the form of a colourful procession, including a specially commissioned anthem, which will be played by local brass bands heralding the arrival of this migratory 'bird'.
 
ADAIN AVION will place the community at the core of each nesting phase, from the development and delivery of the event to the shaping of subsequent activities.
 
During the nesting week, a series of arts, cultural, sporting and community activities will take place in and around the space. Each town will host a dance artist and visual artist, who will engage with local organisations and communities to create new work that will integrate the plane.
 
Its 'roosting' week in each place will offer essential time to incubate ideas and to collate information/artefacts that reflect distinctive qualities within each community. This material will be stored and displayed beneath the planes interior glass floor, transforming it into a traveling time capsule.  
 
ADAIN AVION is a portable piece of public art at its most porous, accessible, participatory and interactive. 
 

Marc Rees is one of Wales’s leading exponents of contemporary performance and installation. His innovative interdisciplinary artworks are known for their flamboyant, humorous and often extreme interpretations of history, culture and personal experience. His most recent artist curated site responsive project was En Residencia, sited at Laboral, Ciudad de la Cultura,Gijon, Asturias, Spain in February–March 2009.
 
In addition to working with some of Britain’s foremost physical theatre companies (Brith Gof, Earthfall and DV8) and Germany’s premiere choreographers (Angela Guerreiro, Thomas Lehmen and Tanz Compagnie Rubato) his own body of work includes the solo stage works Iddo Ef/Caligula Disco/Gloria Days, the installation/performances The House Project /RevolUn/Shed*light and the BBC film A Very Gladys night.
 
ADAIN AVION is co-produced by Taliesin Arts Centre, a long-time supporter and collaborator of Marc’s work.
 
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