About the artwork

On the occasion of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2000, I traveled many times around the six participating municipalities. I thought then that next time I would go around the exhibition by bicycle and make this a performance in itself. At first I planned to use 100 “art bicycles” made by 100 primary and junior high school students, with 100 persons at a time visiting the works in the six municipalities. However the difficulty of collecting the resources, 100 people and 100 bicycles, and having them move around at the same time without violating traffic regulations was such that I settled for a performance of one-fourth that scale.