Pedaling as a cartographic gesture

Abstract

When a body in experience rides its bicycle through the city and
traces trajectories with its wheels, marked by the relationships established with space-time, a cartography is drawn by the gesture of this journey. This body in experience, due to the propulsion needs required for moving the object, the bicycle, is called upon for its balance, attention, listening, and sensitive openness. It is also
driven by desire, affected by its capacity for action. The geographies of these worlds, lived through the act of cycling, demand a
plural and diverse perspective that finds in the scale of the body a starting point for narration. Telling the geographies of cyclists becomes an attempt to configure the space-time experience, in
which they themselves can narrate, in alterity, about their own lives. From narrations of cyclists’ experiences, more specifically those of cycle couriers, geographies emerge from these told stories,
taking shape in text and in sensitive narrative cartographies. This serves as an invitation to reflect on the possible relationships
between geography and art, in efforts to envision a geography for/in/with art.