CYCLES: 43˙33'27"N 79˙35'24"W

For the Projects: Port Credit 2010 exhibition organized by Blackwood Gallery, I have proposed a new local cartography through the creation of a meandering cycling route that retraces history and borders. Revisiting these frontiers and boundaries in an effort to examine the transition from then to now and old to new; I remap a configuration of the old Village of Port Credit, physically linking it with the various communities and requisite components that eventually comprise Port Credit as it is now known. The project mines history, embeds the former within the current geography and thus emphasizes a process of ongoing change.

I have created a limited edition map with proposed route details - including statistical information and historical references - that will be available gratis to visitors of the exhibition.

While creating this route I chronicled my explorations and cycling ordeals - via GPS tracking, video and text ... to view my attempts at mapping out Port Credit's borders by bike click on link
Port Credit 2010 Third Attempt
Port Credit 2010 Second Attempt
Port Credit 2010 First Attempt

I would like to acknowledge the support of Christof Migone and Juliana Zalucky of the Blackwood Gallery, Matthew Wilkinson of Heritage Mississauga
and William Huffman.

Sunday June 27th, 12:30 to 1:30pm: Mapping Port Credit: A Bike Tour

Join me for a group bike tour starting at the Lighthouse (corner of Front St. and Lakeshore Rd.) at 12:30pm and ending at the opening reception.
To register, please email blackwood.gallery@utoronto.ca by Friday, June 25th. Insurance dictates that helmets must be worn by all participants and a Waiver must be signed and received at the start of the event. For more information visit the Blackwood Gallery or email blackwood.gallery@utoronto.ca
The exhibition and opening reception take place in Port Credit at 141 Lakeshore Road East (at Hurontario St.) Opening reception: Sunday June 27th, 1 - 4pm, exhibition runs from Sunday June 27 - Sunday July 25, 2010

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

43˙33'27"N 79˙35'24"W - Port Credit 2010

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