“To see that wheel turning was very soothing, very comforting…I enjoyed looking at it, just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in a fireplace.”

Marcel Duchamp elaborated how he liked watching audiences spin the wheel of his work Bicycle Wheel in its original exhibition – which audiences could never again do after that first exhibition.

This is the first of Marcel’s ready-made objects, where interaction was welcome in its original character (though it was never touched or spun later); his concept has been borrowed by many artists since then.

"Cycling Wheel: The Orchestra" borrows the idea of Marcel’s Bicycle Wheel, re-activating the wheel into a dynamic and interactive one; here the artist transforms its mechanics into a sound and light controller, and turns these three sets of bicycle wheels into a performative instrument. By embedding audio and lighting in the wheel, the artist creates a dancing flame, just like that described by Marcel Duchamp.

It brings 3 sets of “Cycling Wheel” to the stage, and become the instrument of light beam, light strip and music, compose a multi-media performance of a remade of ready-made master piece.

「看著它［按：指杜象 1913 年的作品《單車輪子》］轉呀轉，那是多心曠神怡的事…我喜歡看著它轉，就像我愛看壁爐裡火焰飛舞一樣。」

杜象說他喜歡看到作品《單車輪子》展出時被觀眾轉動的樣子 － 即使在之後的展覽中觀眾都沒機會再轉動它。

《單車輪子》是杜象首件以「現成物」製成的作品：他的本意是鼓勵觀眾與它互動，可惜它卻一直被封印起來，沒有再和觀眾互動過。然而，杜象的概念一直被藝術家們重塑及借用。

《 Cycling Wheel:The Orchestra 》就借用了《單車輪子》的概念，讓被封印的輪子重新運作。藝術家將輪子本身轉化為控制聲音和光影的機器，把三台單車輪子塑造成表演工具。表演把燈光和聲音和輪子結合，幻化成杜象回憶中那飛舞的火焰。

《 Cycling Wheel:The Orchestra 》將三台單車輪子帶到表演台，分別成為了燈條，光束和聲音的控制器，演奏一場來自「現成物」重塑的新媒體表演。