Bruce’s piece questioned acceptable uses of the countryside and asked participants to consider how it is both used and managed for the future. If the land is no longer the source of food, what is it for? By encouraging people to engage in an apparently ‘leisure’ activity – bouncing round a preset track on a space hopper – he humorously raised awareness of how we physically engage with ‘landscapes’. He also raised consideration of how people take travel for granted in the West. If we had to put as much effort as bouncing on a space hopper requires into our daily journeys, we might be more circumspect about our expectation to travel considerable distances on a daily basis.
For those unable to make the Happidrome 4 exhibition, a video record of Space Hopper 2010: Travel Scheme is now on You Tube.
A fantastic video work filmed by and starring artists Paul Glinkowski and Jane Bailey made in response to the Space>Hopper Travel scheme.
It can be found by following the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4MugksnsE4
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Space>Hopper Travel Scheme Hire Centre
Patrick Lowry taking time out from invigilation.
Patrick Lowry taking time out from invigilating in the bunker.
Nearly 200 people visited the exhibition and the site during the weekend and 42 brave souls had a bounce around the space hopper circuit in one way or another. 5 punctures 4 blowouts no injuries a lot of laughs.
Bounce yourself around the Happidrome site 11-4pm on Saturday and Sunday using this free travel scheme for visitors to the exhibition.
