Written by Lucy Faringold
Aircraft were fired from all directions with commendably scant disregard for health and safety

As their contribution to the RSA’s Body Parts festival, FOUND offered us a unique interactive experience based on themes of air travel. As the huge mass of slightly-tipsy punters were ushered into a small room at the bottom of the RSA, each person was given a sheet of paper with which to fashion an airborne gliding device (paper aeroplane, mate…). As we huddled expectantly at one end of the room the FOUND team explained that our aim was to launch our planes in an attempt to break the line of a laser beam that had been set up to fire across the room. The Found team would soundtrack our efforts with double bass, keys, and sampler/laptop manipulation of a live air traffic control broadcast. After a brief, awkward pause, someone heaved their plane into the air and all hell broke loose. Aircraft were fired from all directions with commendably scant disregard for health and safety, as the the FOUND team revved up the madness with their glitchy textures and menacing semi-industrial grinding sounds. Some people’s enthusiasm betrayed the fact that they must have thought a prize was at stake – gathering up handfuls of paper and desperately flailing to break the beam – whilst others stood back and simply enjoyed the frantic, surreal ambiance. A triumph.

RSA, Feb 17, part of the Body Parts festival of performance art

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