Pole Dancing on Wheels: It's Art!
If you can order in chicken wings, pizza, and shop online for just about anything else, why can't you dial up a pole dancer for home delivery?
Andrew Katzander is a performance artist on a mission -- and he's getting there on a bicycle rickshaw, towing an exotic dancer, who gyrates on an 8-foot pole as he pedals through Manhattan.
"We've been stopped by the police only once, and what can they say?" says Katzander. "It's legal. We're exercising."
Just don't mistake the Katzander as the next Larry Flynt. The Pratt Institute grad was slightly miffed that the New York Post focused only on the salacious aspect of this stunt.
"We all know pole-dancing is risqu&eactute;, but it's also a form of art," he says.
And, of course, it passes the Buck Wolf test for all performance art -- it makes you laugh … and then it makes you think.
But where to now? Katzander and his partner are building a second PoleRider, with tentative plans to go to Burning Man, New York's Gay Pride Parade, and Canada's International Pole Camp.
“I try to keep things smooth and steady and I have to lookout for potholes so no one flies off," he told my friends at FlashNews earlier this week. I’m thinking of instating a helmet policy.”
Photo ©Alexander Katzander
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Comments
Brilliant! I saw it on the street last week.
I am all about ‘freedom of expression’, but what are they doing about the kids? I mean I don’t want my kids walking around on a public street and seeing a pole dancer gyrating at a traffic light.