SO LONG BABE (1997)

Single screen video installation with wooden airplane

After publishing the autobiographical fantasy comic book Starvision, Starr began to develop many of the 2D illustrations into real-life three dimensional objects. In Drivin' On (1996), So Long Babe (1997) and the epic Tuberama (1998) she brought the comic stories to life by building her own modes of transportation as a way of escaping reality.
In So Long Babe Starr flies across London in a red one seater airplane to the strains of the Nancy Sinatra song, So Long Babe.

Exhibition history:

I.D, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, 1996
Hypermnesiac Fabulations, The Power Plant, Toronto, 1997
Rational Behaviour, The Tannery, London, 1996
Some Kind of Heaven, Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Germany, 1997
Picture Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 1997
New British Video, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, 1997