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10.1.00 >> 1+1 ? ( @ ? ) : ? + & + ... >> 30.1.00, a hitch-hiking project by the performance and visual artist Daniel Gosling, was one of 14 ‘Small acts at the Millennium’ by British artists commissioned to carry out a personal action or performance ‘addressing the dissident, the private, the idiosyncratic, the ephemeral and the everyday’, in contrast to the public spectacle of other millennial events.[sup 1] The art of hitch-hiking performance project lasted three weeks, and had two related parts. First were the private, performative encounters with the drivers who gave the lifts, where Gosling was ‘inhabiting the work’ and engaged in a process of ‘being and becoming’.[sup 2] Second were the presentations he gave during the three-week project at three motorway service areas in different parts of England – Lancaster (Forton) services, Leicester Forest East services and Gordano services (near Bristol). Gosling spoke to the audiences about the places he had been to and the people he had met, and of how these encounters prompted him to address their voyeuristic dimensions and formulate an ethical code for the performance which he termed a ‘manifesto of engagement’. The drivers who gave him lifts were not informed about the performance project, and so it was decided to make the presentations anecdotal in nature, to preserve the privacy of the everyday encounters, each of which reflected a series of highly complex geographies and spatialities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]