7 am. Orewa Beach.
Video performance, dur. 7:36
Bike with flat tires, wood piece, duct tape, soup tins, wool string, old receipt, purple pot.
Notes:
Intervention at Orewa beach. Gathering domestic found materials. Attaching materials to my brothers old bike - a child's bike, which has flat tires and breaks that don't work. It is reduced to a vehicle that moves poorly, rolling and creaking forwards and backwards. Here I repurpose this worn mechanism to act as a carrier for a filming device. My technique involves building upon what already is there - the found materials are attached to the bike, acting as its extension. I then attempt to ride the bike through the terrain; the two tins clanging rhythmically as the bike moves; a G--clamp holds the tins while gripping a timber off-cut that is duct--taped to the handlebars and seat of the bike.
Tracks are made through the sand. A mark that records my journey/the contraption's journey through the terrain.
I was surprised that this was a fun intervention - a morning ride on a beach - I don't think my making has had this kind of obvious emotional element to it before. It changed pretty quickly into discomfort though- the bike is too small for me and becomes quite hard to pedal in the sand - also you become the centre of attention pretty quickly when aimlessly cruising around on a dwarf bike with domestic leftovers duct-taped to it. Although my work doesn't focus (or at least directly) on emotions/feelings, this was an interesting new encounter for me - just to make a note of -- as it brings attention to the public involved in the work, just as my interventions draw attention from the by-passers that momentarily share the same topographical space with my interventions.
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