‘113.350 MHz’ – Rush Johnstone Sharing Event

July 24, 2025 11:48 am
a saturated image of a stamp depicting a tall concrete air traffic control tower with a large decorative church like window sits against a textured blue sky and orange ground. The stamp has arabic script vertically up each side, a white scalloped edge and is against a black background.

Join us on Saturday the 2nd August from 2 to 4pm for ‘113.350 MHz’, a sharing event by Rush Johnstone following his recent Reader Residency. 

Rush will share work-in-progress from ongoing research into Gaza International Airport, also known as Yasser Arafat International Airport.

113.350 MHz explores the airport’s brief operational life and legacy as both infrastructure and image, drawing on digital remnants including archived websites, satellite imagery, air traffic procedures, and documentation of the present co-opting of the site as a strategic corridor for Israeli ground assault. It considers how aviation infrastructures — particularly in occupied and conflict-affected regions — encode ideologies of control, access, and spatial justice.

The sharing event will include fragments of simulated flight reenactment alongside a growing collection of archival materials. In resisting a singular narrative, the work reflects on what it means to archive interrupted infrastructures, and how airspace mobility is imagined, deferred, or denied.

The event will take place in our space at 13 Ross Street, which is wheelchair accessible and has an accessible gender-neutral toilet. We have travel and childcare bursaries available, please get in touch on market@marketgallery.org to request them.

A photo of a person with long hair and white laze shock with hills sitting on a wooden box in front of a projection.
Two people standing in front of a white wall with photographs of an aerial view of Gaza's airport in different time scales. The one of the left is pointing at one of the prints at the top.
A person wearing a cup looking at a monitor with an aerial photograph. Behind the monitor, the street with cars can be seen.
A person with long hair wearing a cup and a bag pack looking at a A4 piece of paper hanging on a white wall.
Three people standing next to each other looking at a monitor on a plinth. One of them is looking straight into the camera.
Three people standing, smiling. The scene is seen from the inside of a gallery through a big window with shutters half way down. On the window there is a poster with of resistance with nakba 77
All photographs by Erika Stevenson