Cycling the Unknown: BYOB (Bring Your Own Bike) - Yeon Sung
Yeon Sung ( South Korea )
Yeon Sung’s cycling performance transforms Berlin’s polluted Westhafen into an embodied experience, inviting participants to navigate the industrial landscape on their own bikes.
In this ongoing project, "Cycling the Unknown: BYOB (Bring Your Own Bike)," participants "weather" the environment under Yeon's guidance, where the bike becomes a speculative tool for collective embodiment. During her Cycle-up! Residency at ZK/U, Yeon explores Berlin’s urban pollution as a tangible, bodily experience through cycling. Inspired by feminist scholars Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton’s concept of “weathering,” Yeon redefines weather beyond meteorology, viewing it as a domain where human bodies and environmental forces meet.
Through DIY bike workshops and guided cycling performances over two months, Yeon seeks to dissolve divisions between nature and culture, enabling participants to sense and respond to pollution as interconnected "weather-bodies," bridging the human and environmental realms in a shared, responsive experience.
This residency is implemented as part of the Cycle UP! project, co-financed by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
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