The British artist Roger Hiorns plans to bury a decommissioned Boeing 737 jetliner in Icknield Port Loop in his hometown of Birmingham next summer. First announced around four years ago, the project is now in the process of being approved by the local authorities, according to Jonathan Watkins, the director of Ikon Gallery, which is collaborating on the installation.
It is hoped the Arts Council England will grant the £250,000 needed to complete the project. If successful, Hiorns will beat the Swiss artist Christoph Büchel, who has just been granted a two-year extension for planning permission to bury a Boeing 727 in California’s Mojave Desert, and the artist collective Bury The Jumbo, which proposes to do the same at Berlin’s Tempelhof airport.
