Lorna Stewart “Knife Grinder is a performance that has developed out of a visit to Buenos Aires. Lorna attaches a drive-belt to a bicycle that connects a grindstone to the cogs used by the chain. With the back wheel off the ground she activates this device which lifts her off the ground, thus supplying her [...]
Posts tagged ‘bikes’
Bike Series – Lorna Stewart – Knife Grinder
October 20th, 2011
Johannes Bergmark – The Veloncell Marcel
October 5th, 2011
The Veloncell Marcel is a hommage-copy of Duchamp’s famous Bicycle Wheel. The spokes of the wheel on the kitchen stool (and anything on the fork) are amplified through a contact microphone on the hub. Mine (made 80 years later), has a tyre and a dynamo, for the electrical sound (and light!) (thus the first “electric” [...]
Bicycle Series: Joe Bigley: Traversing a Foreign Border Domestically
September 21st, 2011
“Within the context of the project, Traversing a Foreign Border Domestically, the bike seems like the most appropriate mode of transportation. The bike is seen as a symbol of personal freedoms reflecting its self reliance nature reflecting on establishing a sovereign nation in Afghanistan. Bicycling around the country as a performance work, has proven effective [...]
Are you creating ephemeral works utilizing a Bicycle or multiple Bikes? If so, The Present Tense wants to see what you are doing and consider your work for an upcoming blog post on Bikes as a performative object. Please send the following information to thepresentiseternal@gmail.com by August 1 2011. Artist statement (100 words) Artist Bio [...]
