Endurance records

Paddy Doyle - holds more than 114 fitness endurance records including 1303 back-of-hands push-ups in 1 hour, Birmingham, UK.

An installation of number banners and arrows at Bananna gallery Birmingham. 23rd Jan' - 19th February 2002. I was invited to do a show in Digbeth, Birmingham at the Bannana gallery. I chose to display some number banners in an installation which described some of the endurance records set by a local celebrity Paddy Doyle. Some semblances of the endurance record rules for push-ups (two hands, one hand), back pack carrying, Samson's chair and Brick carrying were used with Number banners to describe Paddy's feets of strength.

The endurance record installations Back pack record with banner 0   Sit-up record with banner 1   Push-up record with banner 2   Samsons chair record with banner 3 Number banners are held upright, the official guinness rules for each record attempt were written using a purpose-built font called Stencil Letters. The style of this font attempts emphasise the practical nature of the banners as tools. Cardboard arrows accompany both the written rules and the banners; an added dynamism, allowing the situation to have a closer relation to the record breaking attempts of athletes like Paddy Doyle and the rules he had to obey.