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TR4 Pedal Pumping

During a recent visit to the Ikon gallery in Birmingham I came across an art film featuring a Triumph TR4 and a very peculiar niche interest, Pedal Pumping. The artist Matias Faldbakken has an exhibition running until the 28 January. As they say...

'Untitled (Pedal Pumping) (2009, with Lars Brekke), one of a number of video pieces in the exhibition, shows a girl’s flip-flop-clad foot repeatedly depressing the accelerator pedal of a car. Having uploaded it to YouTube, the video was quickly viewed thousands of times, appealing particularly to the car-pedal-fetishist underground. Faldbakken’s interest lies in transforming defnitions of what is normative and what is marginal, subcultural or rebellious, reducing the distance between them.'

I never knew there was a 'car-pedal-fetishist underground' it takes all sorts...I hope you enjoy it.