CYCLES: Stage 11: Kassel to Münster

Last long day in saddle! Kassel to Münster - 200km
Beautiful warm sunny day … no rain! Petra and I enjoy a quiet ride through mostly farmlands and small towns on fairly flat terrain.

Make a pit stop for water and a washroom in Beckum where Petra forgets her helmet. We were so focused on dealing with the traffic in Beckum (we were passing through during rush hour) we didn't notice until we were out of the thick of it. We stop, Petra unloads her panniers and leaves me at the outskirts of town to go back and fetch it. Fortunately it was right where she left it.

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Cycles

Cycles is an ongoing series of physical and virtual interventions that continues Cheryl Rondeau's exploration of the intersection between art and the everyday. Using the bike as the main mode of travel each intervention is fueled by determination and human-power.

Cycles projects:

the Route (Art Spin 08/2012)
43˚33'27"N 79˚35'24"W - Port Credit 2010
The Commute
Cycles 2009: Approaching Caribou Harbour
Cycles 2008: Toronto - Sudbury
Art Ride 2007

Physical endurance forms a central theme of the project. The use of the body in the artist’s displacement, its emphatic integration in the terrain, proposes a questioning of our perceptions of time and space in a world constantly shrinking within the virtual realm of cyberspace and ever-increasing air travel. Borders and geography are collapsed, disappearing from our collective memory. With this series of physical and virtual interventions Cheryl Rondeau pursues an investigation of the relationships between space and the body, gesture and the individual as well as the rupture between lived experience and its representation, so as to see and think differently.

Loaded with maps, camera, phone and notebook Rondeau logs her trouvailles and maps out her parcours. The Situationists were known to use walkie-talkies on their dérives. Similarly, she exploits today’s technology. Daily activities involve collecting ephemera, digital video and photography to map the geography of the experience and record the multiplicity of interstitial spaces between the departure and arrival points. Maintaining a record of the borders crossed and the landscapes traversed; while dealing with the elements and the fatigue that is at the core of long-distance cycling.
For more information: rondeau.cheryl@gmail.com

CYCLES

Stage 11: Kassel to Münster

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