CYCLES: Port Credi 2010: First Attempt

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Friday 30 April 2010 - I've mapped out a route based on my research thus far and deciding to explore chronologically, the various neighbourhoods that make up Port Credit in the order that they became a part of this village. I start cycling on the west side of Credit River (where it meets Lake Ontario) in the oldest part of Port Credit. Just south of its first neighbourhood, founded in 1835. I document my route via GPS mapping and video recording (camera is affixed to the handlebars). Unfortunately, this first attempt was less than successful; the routing was a bit too confusing to follow while negotiating unfamiliar territory and lots of traffic. Will reconfigure my notes, and route, in a way that they can be easily followed while maneuvering small streets and the many turns and loops necessary to achieve my goal of physically mapping out the boundaries of each neighbourhood.

Here are some details from the day's ride:

Click on image below to view/play GPS routing.

Video of my cycling meanderings.

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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

Port Credi 2010: First Attempt

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