Conceived by the institute's head Lisa Le Feuvre with curator Pavel Pyś, this series of nine sculptural events – which has so far featured a flying chair by Roman Signer and Simone Fort's Slant Board, a giant ramp performers moved across using ropes – is intended to "challenge assumptions of sculpture as immovable, stable and fixed".
Among the attractions at the weekend Governors Island festival are flying chair rides, boat-shaped swings and carousels with hand-carved wooden animals for seats.
11 U.C.L.A. -- Watch for flying chairs, and for hot Tech to be cooled off.
Later, in the sprawling park known as the Takht-e-Safar gardens — one of Ismail Khan's legacies — children swirled in flying chairs at a creaky multicolored fun fair.
It is the moment before Frisbees begin to fly, Chairs and umbrellas open, The smell of hot dogs and fries fills the air.
The best of these is "Route 110," in which Mr. Heaney recalls both "the slack marsupial vent" of a bookstore clerk's change-pocket when he buys a copy of Virgil's Aeneid, and later: "Slim Whitman's wavering tenor amplified/Above sparking dodgems, flying chair-o-planes/A mile of road with parked cars in the twilight".
"Ah," they will say as they wipe away tears of laughter and regret after an amusing anecdote of abusive text messages and flying chairs, "there aren't many like Belly around any more". Anyone who genuinely thinks that Fowler is the last of a breed should get out more.
When I tracked down 50-odd of them for my book The Fallen, awestruck ex-members would regale me with tales of flying chairs, being told they'd played "like a bloody pub band", or drummers being fined a fiver for the heinous crime of hitting the tom tom.
If he doesn't, he better watch out for flying chairs.
But the characters are engaging and there are enough suitably weird slamming doors, falling statues and flying chairs to give the show a promising sense of suspense and fun.
