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Moscow, Russia
\nSeptember 2014<\/p>\n

RUFO – Rudimentary Unidentified Frictional Object<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have been doing research around the idea of “creating while walking” for a long time now (see the Promenades Project I did in Beijing: www.eltono.com\/en\/projects\/promenades<\/a>), my last idea was to register friction during a walk and I came up with the idea of RUFO \u2013 RUFO is a typical dog name in French and also the name of a toy dog that was released in the 80\u00b4s. I decided the four letters would stand for “Rudimentary Unidentified Frictional Object”.<\/p>\n

Basically, I wanted to drag an artwork along a defined path and register the way it decays. I was doing tests around this idea when I was asked to participate in Artmossphere Biennial in Moscow so I decided to do the first RUFO experiment in the street of the Russian capital. I painted 11 wood boards with bold colored graphics and one by one dragged them around the city on different paths I had selected earlier (around the exhibition space, in random neighborhood, around the Red Square, around the hotel…). Each walk was between one and two kilometers, except for RUFO #9 where I walked for 2,5 kilometers and the painting almost disappeared entirely. Having the artwork interacting with the outside was crucial \u2013 showing artworks in the state they came out of the studio doesn’t interest me \u2013 my idea was to “print” the city onto each board turning them into witnesses of a walk, an experience. On the back of each board I showed the map of the walk and all the data generated (date, time, duration, distance and name of the streets wandered) \u2013 note that during the biennial, I showed reproductions of the back of the boards on spare boards for the people to understand better the story.<\/p>\n