94.7 Cycle Challenge
Johannesburg, 2006. Duration: 1 hour. Photographer: Juliana Smith
In 2006, I rode the 94.7 Cycle Challenge, South Africa’s biggest cycle race, on a stationary exercise bike. The performance provoked reactions ranging from encouraging cheers, to shouts of “fucking loser!” This interruption was an attempt to open up a space of play in a highly structured event. For me, play is free movement within the constraints of a structure, and it feeds off that structure to create its own rules.
