Bike Circuit - a performance and an installation
Kristina Lindström and Åsa Ståhl invites you to join us in a bicycle ride in Oslo.
Manual
• Join Bike Circuit by sending an email no later than 10th September to
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. Subject: “Oslo biking”.
• Wait for a reply, but put time aside for a meeting on the evening of Monday 14th September 2009 to plan our bike ride. More info on email.
• Bike ride will take place at a convenient time during 15th September. All the participants will have a recording device to record the installation material live-on-tape.
• 17th September installation will open at Deichman library. All recordings will be broadcast to radios. The radios will be movable, in order for visitors to shuffle them around and try to follow the formations of the bikers and thereby the flow of perspectives, stories, positions.
• Artist presentation of installation at Deichman library at 5 pm 17th September.
Framework
In our bicycle performance seven bike riders will be in close contact with the streets of Oslo and with each other; with human and non-human actors. As we are on the bicycles we are in between places not knowing exactly where we are going, only for how long the ride will go on.
The aim is for the bike riders to not put the foot down during the ride, but to help each other keep a flow as we create a polyphonic narrative through passing on information to each other about fellow actors in the streets be that other bikers, red lights, cars or animals. During the ride we will pass messages on to each other as in the game of Chinese Whispers, allowing all participants to be part of an ongoing negotiation on where to direct ones attention, what to listen to, and where to go.
During the bicycle ride every biker will have an audio recorder. Consequently there will be recordings from every participant’s perspective and position.
For the installation in Deichman library there will be seven radios, one for each sound recording done by each person who participated in the performance. The radios can be moved around in the installation thereby creating new flows of information and even richer narratives.
Do you want to join the bike circuit?
Send an email no later than 10th September to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with “Oslo biking” as the subject. Maximum seven participants.