ABOUT BRING YOUR OWN BIKE

Inhale slowly,
Exhale softly

BYOB (Bring Your Own Bike) is a participatory cycling performance series that explores polluted weather as a collective, embodied phenomenon. Participants pedal through polluted industrial areas on their own bikes, weatheringWeathering is used here in the sense developed by feminist theorist Astrida Neimanis: bodies are continuously shaped, worn, and altered by the atmospheric conditions they move through, in an exchange between body and weather that runs both ways. together under the guidance of the artist.

Pedal smoothly,
push against the wind.

Here the bike is a speculative tool that turns the body into a sensing instrument, tuned to headwind, exhaust, the smell of oil rising off water. Each pedal stroke is a small negotiation with the air: a shared practice where the environment, the socio-political climate, and the body meet.

The performance has taken place across industrial sites in Europe and South Korea (ports, refineries, energy infrastructure), each ride shaped by the uneven atmosphere and politics of its location: who breathes what, and where, and who is even allowed to get close enough to ask.