OXIDE13 20/1/09

Oxide13
2008 onwards
Performance
Oxford-Michaelwood Services M5

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Oxide13 is a performance that began in early 2008. I drive from my home in Oxford to Michaelwood Welcome Break Services on the M5. This is roughly ninety miles away and takes about an hour depending on traffic. I then sit and have a Peppermint tea or soy Cappuccino and a small Green&Blacks chocolate bar before driving home.

The work is about trying to escape but ultimately finding yourself in transit, the space that exists between destinations, a space that is always of going and a space to contemplate destination. It is also about waste and the human condition. What constitutes a worthy use of money, time and resources?

Of the many times I have done this performance it has been for the most part alone and on few occasions with the people closest to me. In this film I take my partner Emily and friend Jon who documents the work.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Non-Places
• no
• place
• Michaelwood
• Service
• station
• M5
• Oxford
• Oxide13
• There's
• No
• coincidence
• It's
• Only
• Cruel
• Randomness
• Octopus