BICITYCLE (Bike City), 2009

Kyohei Sakaguchi - Tokyo, Japan

Interactive Mobile Installation

BICITYCLE (Bike-city) is a project about mobile life. Sakaguchi is inspired by the lifestyle, innovation and survival skills of homeless people in Japan. His research focuses on two concepts; mobility and recycling. The houses of the homeless are easy to dismantle and remake because people are forced to move their houses. They separate the infrastructures: water, gas, toilet, and electricity. The houses are made from the scraps of the city, as they understand the materials of urban waste are natural resources. Sakaguchi undertakes this concept further through incorporating used bicycles as a survival action for the city.  

For Nuit Blanche, the artist will create 11 mobile housing units, each attached to a bicycle. The audience can interact and relocate the works within the area.

Kyohei Sakaguchi (Tokyo, Japan) is an artist, writer, thinker, adventurer, and architect. He has participated in many solo and group exhibitions internationally, including Zero Yen House, Vancouver Art Gallery; Informal Architecture at the Walter Philips Gallery, Banff, and ICA Plug In, Winnipeg; World Social Forum International Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya; Global Life Japon(s), St Nazaier, France; and has produced four novels and several journals in the last two years.

Suitable for all ages

Thank you to:
Martin Heath, Cinecycle

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