Thursday 4th July as part of the "Journeys" panel a paper by Sergio Fava: Homebound: Motorcycle Touring and Transitional States – Sergio Fava Freedom through motion is one of the core elements of bikers’ experience. The new, the transient and the serendipitous are also key elements of motorcycle touring. Usually, these are welcome changes from the predictability of a sedentary life that orbits a ‘home’. What if, instead, a motorcycling tour was intended as a way of finding a (lost sense of) home? This presentation documents a 3000-mile journey from Cambridge the speaker’s birthplace Lisbon, using recently discovered rolls of unexposed photographic film. The degraded film is a randomising factor. Such uncontrollable variables are inherent to the narratives of long motorcycle journeys. Alongside a diary and geolocation of images, the film will be used to generate an account of a personal reflective voyage.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:30:25 +0000