Cycling the Unknown: BYOB (Bring Your Own Bike) - Yeon Sung
Yeon Sung ( South Korea )
“Cycling the Unknown: BYOB (Bring Your Own Bike)” is an ongoing participatory performance series that explores polluted weather as a collective embodied phenomenon. During the Cycle-up! Residency at ZK/U, Sung will investigate urban pollution in Berlin as a bodily reality through cycling, viewed as a sustainable artistic practice. The project aims to transcend the dichotomy between nature and culture, as well as human and environment, by becoming "weather-bodies" who sense, perform, and act upon polluted weather.
Inspired by the concept of "weathering" proposed by feminist scholars Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Sung's work views weather as more than mere meteorological phenomena, but as a domain where the human body, pollution, culture, and socio-political aspects intersect as embodied experiences.
Over the course of two months, she will organize a DIY bike workshop and participatory cycling performance. Participants will be invited to pedal through polluted areas with their own bikes, collectively 'weathering' under the guidance of the artist.
This residency is implemented as part of the Cycle UP! project, co-financed by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible for them.
