Flying Without Means: A Psychogeography of Practice

Artist Book / Publication
CIRCADIAN
Premiered at MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival 2024 at HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), 2024

Flying Without Means offers a systematic introduction to the various registers of autonomous flying. Entering the flight mode through the body, mind and spirit, the preliminary course offers a user manual to assist the reader in independent flying. Based on the two complementary methods of unassisted flying – jumping without landing and throwing oneself on the ground but missing it – Book One in this series focuses on the daily repetition of one hundred burpees as a foundation for the first unassisted flight. Based on over ten years of consistent practice, the book superimposes the continuum of take-off and landing on a daily hundredfold repetition.

This book offers a series of psychogeographical insights, organised as notes, alongside a stop-motion animation of the technique. Activated by the continuity of the reader’s practice, this preliminary course in flying is a springboard of practice for beginners and intermediate practitioners. This workbook is not exhaustive and has been written alongside and during the daily practice of the technique. Accordingly, these two hundred notes on one hundred burpees form an intuitive guide with a set of reflective coordinates and a dynamic space for making your own experiences and mapping your own paths as you continue to grow through your own practice.

The book is available here -> CIRCADIAN Bookstore


Credits: 

Composed through ILYICH.
Drawings and animation Anton Kats with Ihor Kritskiy.
Published by CIRCADIAN