Image: Justin McKeown and his 'Trundle Wheel' in front of the main Library in Sofia Bulgaria. Photograph was taken by Friedrich Nichtmargen during the 1st International SPART Insurgence, held in Bulgaria

People Who Have Sponsored Justin on The Road to Bandung
Boris Niesloney (1 Euro)
Martin Zet (1 Euro)
Vassya Vassileva (1 Euro)
Kenny McBride (1 Euro)
Myriam Leplant (5 Euros!!)
Nenad Bogdanovic (1 Euro)
Radoslav B. Cugalj (1 Euro)
Denis Romanovski (1 Euro)
Sinead O'Donnell (1 Euro)
Paul Couillard (1 Euro)

Communication on the Road to Bandung
Email communication and dialogue is one of the most important aspects of 'On the Road to Bandung'.The most important corespondents in the whole dialogue are the members of the International Association of Performance Art Organisers (IAPAO). Justin communicates with them on a regular basis. For this reason it may be worth visiting their web site and reading through their email archive. to do this click here.


On The Road To bandung
On the Road to Bandung is an interactive durational spartwork manifested in the mediums of performance, video, mail art, correspondence, installation, publication and archive curation. It actively seeks exchange and dialogue with all people who encounter it as the work unfolds. If you are reading this, then you are invited to join in and meet and/or walk with me some distance On the Road to Bandung.

How it All Began
It all began on the 2nd February 2004. I had been reading emails from the International Association of Performance Art Organisers (IAPAO) email group about a meeting in Bandung. There were emails asking users of the list to pay a set amount of money to the IAPAO bank account in Helsinki. There were other emails about this stating the fact that the IAPAO bank account had only 11 Euro's in it (the symbolic sum of money placed in it when it was opened by Roi Varra) there were other emails... they were irrelevant. The more I read, the more I found myself wondering what, if anything, any of this had to do with my life or the lives of anyone I knew. What about my mate Matt at my shitty day job or my mum living in the scummy paramilitary housing estate in Northern Ireland?

Had it all really come to this?

I decided to offer them my help. My idea was simple, I would set off for Bandung myself... although I would not exactly go to Bandung, I simply don't have the money to do this. Rather, I would walk the distance between my house in Ballymena (Northern Ireland) and Bandung (Indonesia) 'as the crow flies'. I would do this in my spare time.

This would be a sponsored walk in keeping with the SPARTIST aesthetic. I decided I would ask all members of IAPAO to sponsor me 1 Euro (minimum) each, which I would then donate back to their central bank account in Helsinki when I had finished the walk. I would keep all members of IAPAO up to date with my progress on the Road to Bandung by sending them emails. I also promised I would do all in my power to raise them as much money and as much profile as possible.

That's how it began...

I have currently walked over 5150 Kilometres and am currently somewhere in the Saudi Arabian desert, although my eye's are fixed firmly on Bandung...

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