Donut

Made:
2004 in United Kingdom
maker:
Mike Stubbs
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Gallery views of the "Donut" exhibit in the Energy Gallery
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Gallery views of the "Donut" exhibit in the Energy Gallery
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Gallery views of the "Donut" exhibit in the Energy Gallery
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Gallery views of the "Donut" exhibit in the Energy Gallery
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Digital film, ‘Donut’ by Mike Stubbs, 2004. The piece comprises two films projected in tandem which show the artist performing ‘donuts’ in a car.

Since early childhood Mike Stubbs has been obsessed with fast cars and speed. In Donut he demonstrates a continued obsession and questioning through a combination of video and poetry. 'Donut' is a term used by young fast-car enthusiasts to describe a circle of burnt rubber made by spinning a rear-wheel-drive car on the spot. In the work there is an implicit concern that, as the artist converts fuel into speed and sound, he is wasting precious energy and his car is releasing fumes that damage the planet. The work embodies the tension between a vernacular pleasure and addiction to car culture as a post-war phenomenon, and social awareness of environmental and economic issues of sustainability.

Donut was installed in the Science Museum Energy Gallery installed 2004-2018, presented alongside a poem. A version of the piece also featured on Channel 4 television in the series '3 Minute Wonder' and also as a more complex installation shown in museums and galleries in Australia and the UK.

Details

Category:
Art
Object Number:
2018-74
Materials:
MB MOV file
type:
digital film
credit:
Commissioned by the Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, 2004