FLIGHT (2016)
Brockhole Lake District Visitors Centre House and Grounds
Flight was a site-specific performance journey, with local volunteer performers around the historic house and grounds of Brockhole, the Lake District National Parks Visitor Centre Windermere. After the opening weekend, the work continued in the form of an innovative installation trail through the landscape.
Commissioned by the Lakes Alive Festival for 1418NOW, Flight captured the beauty, power and drama of flight in all its forms, paying tribute to its setting in Cumbria, a region rich in aviation history.
At the heart of Flight were the young airmen of the First World War and the people they left behind. They looked up at the sky waiting for their loved ones to return, like migrating birds coming home – only to wait and wait as so many never came back.
When I read that Royal Flying Corps new pilots, often in their teens, lasted on average just 11 days from arrival on the front to death, I thought of the Cumbrian landscape dreaming of its missing airmen, realising they would never return…
Geraldine Pilgrim
Flight was a site-specific performance journey, with local volunteer performers around the historic house and grounds of Brockhole, the Lake District National Parks Visitor Centre Windermere. After the opening weekend, the work continued in the form of an innovative installation trail through the landscape.
Commissioned by the Lakes Alive Festival for 1418NOW, Flight captured the beauty, power and drama of flight in all its forms, paying tribute to its setting in Cumbria, a region rich in aviation history.
At the heart of Flight were the young airmen of the First World War and the people they left behind. They looked up at the sky waiting for their loved ones to return, like migrating birds coming home – only to wait and wait as so many never came back.
When I read that Royal Flying Corps new pilots, often in their teens, lasted on average just 11 days from arrival on the front to death, I thought of the Cumbrian landscape dreaming of its missing airmen, realising they would never return…
Geraldine Pilgrim
