Peloton / 2007

I made a new video performance work Peloton, for the Radiance Festival, Glasgow. The work, a form of social sculpture was a nocturnal performance in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow in which a group of cyclists (20+) rode bikes fitted with a blue neon tube activated by each rider's forward motion. Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916) discovered neon at nearby Glasgow University in 1898. Collectively the choreographed cyclists gradually illuminate the black space of the park into a vortex of blue light. Subsequently projected in a partially derelict urban site in the Cities East End, the film became a portable, shifting cipher for time, energy and unidentifiable collective presence.