‘A Body and Bicycle’ examines the hidden ecology behind food-delivery apps and the ethos of disengagement produced by their frictionless, hyper-efficient interfaces. Prompted by the recent surge of delivery riders on Dublin’s streets—many of them migrants navigating the city under algorithmic direction—the project contrasts the seamless, detached customer experience with the riders’ physical, migratory journeys around the city.

The work reflects on this anti-social yet socially entangled system, a hyperreal food culture expanding in popularity. Presented as an experimental ethnographic installation combining sculpture, light, and moving-image, it draws on observed aesthetics of the food delivery cycle from both client and rider perspectives, attempting to personalise an otherwise depersonalised, technologically mediated and algorithmically directed experience.