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Description: | Donut is a twin dvd projection and 4 monitor installation about the drawing of a perfect circle. But the creator of this circle is not an artist - the canvas is asphalt and the medium is a car. Donut is the term used by young fast-car enthusiasts to describe a circle of burnt rubber made by spinning a rear wheel drive car on the spot. It represents bravado and skill on the part of the driver who is usually part of the car cruising culture - one of Britain's biggest underground movements. Mike Stubbs is an observer of the idiosyncratic pastimes of British culture. His work records the esoteric practices of groups held together by the pursuit of an interest that has become an obsession. Donut is his first autobiographical piece. For Stubbs, brought up in the English town of Bedford, the overriding passion of his own adolescence was cars. His memories of car culture are bound up with the identity of Bedford - from the Santa Pod raceway, deemed to be Europe's best drag strip, to surrounding car manufacturing and design plants, threatened with closure as the Britain's industry went into decline. To make Donut, Mike Stubbs returned to Bedford 20 years on - now a father, an adult and an artist - to document the history of his own obsession. Donut is, in more than one way, about the drawing of a perfect circle. The installation treats the goal of the perfect donut as a ritual performance, the climax of the work. Around this, Stubbs interweaves his memories of growing up immersed in the car culture of the 70's with imagery of contemporary local car enthusiasts - polished hubs and tailpipes, lowered suspensions, chassis illuminated by glowing neon, fast car' track day and, what Stubbs terms, arsing about in car-parks'. Donut has been made in collaboration with Gina Czarnecki, Scanner, and Bedford Community Arts who commissioned the work with funding from East England . | Subjects: | media installation | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Mike Stubbs Approach: Hybrid Media Art Nationality: British | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=7898... | Go to resource |
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