bike-a-logues podcast

Bike-a-logues is an ongoing exploration of what it means for cyclists to be in dialogue about the things they think about while cycling through particular spaces and places. As installed in building, participants cooperate to pedal stationary bikes in order to listen to excerpts of interviews with friends of mine about how their spatial imaginaries are formed by cycling. The podcast is to be listened to while riding bicycle. Preferably at UC Santa Cruz. The voices you hear are: Ann Altstatt, Stuyvie Bearns Esteva, Nikolai Berkoff, Kelly Brown, Timothy Krupnik, Sophia Strosberg, and myself.

Bike-a-logues postulates that there is a special relationship between the cyclist and the places that (s)he travels through. The cyclist experiences the landscape, bodily, by pushing up hills and rolling over bumps: (s)he begins to feel all the land forms that surround her/him as a continuum of intimately related undulating moments.
The thoughts that the cyclist has while traveling through a place might become wedded in her mind to a tree, a signpost, a cottage in much the same way as, for a collector, thoughts and stories become associated with particular objects. The collector might keep these objects in a box, or hang them on her wall for display. How does the cyclist come to collect his or her thoughts, his or her stories?
Bike-a-logues assumes that such a special relationship exists, but takes as its task research into what that relationship looks likes, where its strengths are, and, also, where its fissures are. The question of how cycling participates in the production of space is an open-ended one, and, from the standpoint of Bicilogues, a question that is currently in flux; how is the space produced by cycling different when the cyclist is given the task of recording his or her relationship with places? When in dialogue with other cyclists?

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