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I want to look at the airport as a space in general, as an inbetween place, where nobody ever really wants to be. Airports are a stop you have to make in order to get to your final destination. When you are the airport, you have left (e.g. your home) and arrived (at the airport), but you are not really 'there' yet either - because 'there' is the place you want to go and not the departure lounge. Once your flight has landed, you have arrived somewhere, but at the same time, you are still en route to your final destination.

In relation to that, I’m exploring the traveler-airport relationship. At an airport, one always has to prove his innocence (e.g. showing your ID, letting your bag be searched to prove that there are no harmful objects in etc.) which has become significantly more difficult since 9/11. I want to look into how the relationship between the traveler and an airport has changed, how airports were perceived in the past and how they are perceived today. I’m conducting a series of experiments exploring that relationship and showing how people move and interact within the space.

I also want to look about how airport policies can completely change the perception of certain things, i.e. water, which is generally considered completely harmless, but once it is in a bottle and taken to airport security, it is suddenly regarded as a potentially dangerous ‘weapon’ that could be used to hijack a flight.