Video, 7’27” 
Filmed by Ziedonis Rēdmanis 

It is easy to learn to live in the scale of a car. Planning your body based on the size of the parking space, distance based on asphalt, proximity based on speed. How much does this way of thinking continue to guide us even after we have gotten out of the car? Our feet have already touched the ground, but our thoughts are still sitting behind the wheel. 

The feeling when you can no longer distinguish movement from habit. The tire that is carried becomes a belief that you will not get anywhere without it. An object that you once perceived as freedom has now become a burden. It no longer leads, it drags along.

The work refers to the phrase car brain, which indicates a way of thinking in which the car has become the unit of measurement for everything else. Car culture promises the opportunity to go anywhere, but in reality it often becomes a choiceless system. It is not just a matter of convenience. It is a world where people outside of cars are not fully-fledged participants in traffic, where public spaces are planned as areas to be crossed rather than places to be.

This work is not against the cars themselves, but rather against the notion that they are the only possible solution. As long as we are unable to imagine a different kind of city, we will continue to bring this tire with us again and again, even when we are going nowhere.