Mapping the Moving Image

Projector Bike rides, Mapping Melbourne (Multicultural Arts Victoria), Melbourne VIC, 2017

Project description

Mapping the Moving Image was a cross-city dialogue between Osaka and Melbourne, told through short film.

On two Friday nights in December 2017, riders set off from Testing Grounds in Southbank on Projector Bike rides through the Melbourne CBD, stopping to screen short films by emerging filmmakers from Osaka College of Art onto building facades, bridges and other city infrastructure. Each film was matched to its screening site, so a film about Japan’s newest fast train played under a Melbourne railway bridge as Metro trains rattled overhead.

The rides re-mapped each city through the other’s moving image, and were presented as part of Multicultural Arts Victoria’s Mapping Melbourne 2017, a festival of independent contemporary Asian art.

Technical information

Two group bike rides with mobile projection, Friday 1 and Friday 8 December 2017, 8-10pm

Up to 35 riders per ride, departing Testing Grounds, Southbank

Credits

Lead Artist, Curator - Lee Ramseyer Bache

Project Coordinator - Joseph Norster (Testing Grounds)

Films - Emerging filmmakers, Osaka College of Art

Presented by - Multicultural Arts Victoria, Mapping Melbourne 2017