Klassenkampf / Class Struggle - Bicycling Tbilisi, 2012
2 channel video 60 min,
see on youtube a small part of this 60 min movie. - coming
This video shows me riding the bicycle for one hour across Tbilisi without any other aim but to experience and show the current condition of bike riding. During my ride, I did not encounter more than 2 or 3 bike riders. I hope that 5 years from now, BIKEWAYS will be installed - or at least traditional bike lanes - and people will use bicycles for transportation.
Karl Marx's term Klassenkampf / Class struggle is here understood also as a struggle between different classes of transportation.
the first camera was operated by me while riding; the second camera by my assistant who preferes not to be named following me on a motorcycle that broke down several time during our 1 hour filming.
this is actually a two channel video. In Tbilisi, with very limiited resources (no video projecdtor and not space) I edited both video on a vertical screen
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more photos to come
see on youtube a small part of this 60 min movie.
Tbilisi exhibition - Triennale 2012