Honeymoon, Mozambique Throughout the 1990s this bike was part of my art and daily life. On a few exhibition openings the engine revved along with live performances by musician friends, filling the gallery with blue smoke and petrol fumes. During the Groundswell show, I rode the bike from London to Scotland and back and took 200 photographs of it in the landscape. |
Because of my involvement with the production of educational cartoons for emerging farmers in cooperation with the Agricultural Research Council, I become aware of the great demand for knowledge transfer in South Africa. A towering pile of encyclopaedias just barely balancing on the back of my motorbike becomes a visual metaphor for my perception of the large mass of scientific agricultural knowledge that had to be re-processed for 'grass-root level' use, as envisioned by the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). |