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Performing sustainable transport: an artistic RIDE across the city.
- Source :
- Cultural Geographies; Apr2014, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p287-292, 6p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Critically reflecting upon a performance piece enacted by the author, this paper explores the value of artistic practice as a means for undertaking research. The performance was a piece of GPS drawing, using the movement of a body in space to write the word ‘RIDE’ across the city, subsequently represented in the form of a map. Scholars working in mobilities have increasingly been opening up the spaces of transport to critical enquiry, revealing the practices and powers enmeshed in the everyday activity of moving from A-to-B. This paper argues that in using a bicycle ride to create an art work – even one of little aesthetic merit – the author was able to create a new understanding of cycling practices that would not be captured through conventional social science techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- ART & science
CYCLING
INSTALLATION art
ARTISTS
SOCIAL sciences
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14744740
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Cultural Geographies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 94873602
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474012466017