// LE VÉLOCOUSMONIUM // Exposition collective Punkte Final.e , Friche de l’Antre Peaux Bourges, 2022

Installation participative pour 8 vélos et 16 pieds – Extérieur et/ou Intérieur

Le Vélocousmonium est une œuvre participative, collective et joyeuse !

Les spectateurs sont amenés à pédaler et à mettre en mouvement les vélos. Ils spatialisent le son en temps réel, jouent avec l’architecture, l’acoustique des lieux et les autres participants. La composition sonore est une octophonie, chaque vélo joue une voix. Pour entendre la composition en entier, tous les vélos doivent jouer.

Aide fabuleuse à la conception et à la réalisation : Louis Bortot

Création 2022

You might have noticed there’s something wrong with this bike. Or you might have not.
This bicycle is missing the chainstay, a very important part of its frame, and it would immediately break if someone tried to ride it. But luckily this bike doesn’t exist. Let me explain everything from the beginning:
back in 2009 I began pestering friends and random strangers. I would walk up to them with a pen and a sheet of paper asking that they immediately draw me a men’s bicycle, by heart. Soon I found out that when confronted with this odd request most people have a very hard time remembering exactly how a bike is made. Some did get close, some actually nailed it perfectly, but most ended up drawing something that was pretty far off from a regular men’s bicycle.
Little I knew this is actually a test that psychologists use to demonstrate how our brain sometimes tricks us into thinking we know something even though we don’t.
I collected hundreds of drawings, building up a collection that I think is very precious. There is an incredible diversity of new typologies emerging from these crowd-sourced and technically error-driven drawings. A single designer could not invent so many new bike designs in 100 lifetimes and this is why I look at this collection in such awe.

22,50 mètres de haut et 350 tonnes d’acier… Le Cyclop est une œuvre sculpturale monumentale qui trône dans les bois de Milly-la-Forêt (Essonne, Île-de-France). Réalisée par Jean Tinguely avec le concours de sa femme Niki de Saint Phalle et de leurs amis artistes