After filling a London council flat with crystals,the Turner prize-nominee is realising his next grand plan for 2017 – and he’s even bought the aeroplaneIf not precisely the land of lost content, the rubble strewn backwater of the Birmingham canal network, and with its scrapyards,stubs of old-fashioned warehouse walls, and buddleia sprouting amid white-van parking spaces, and is certainly the land of lost mischief for Roger Hiorns. The artist is on course to bury a Boeing 737 seven metres under its battered surface.“Didn’t you learn to smoke here?” Jonathan Watkins,director of the city’s Ikon gallery, asks him.
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Source: theguardian.com