"Bike Cultures" exhibition seeking Proposals
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trickmilla at 06.12.10 - 12:04 pm
This is a great opportunity for those who would like their bicycle related Art & Bike Culture projects to be recognized and entered in to Art/ Bike Culture history by a major Art institution.
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SEEKING PROPOSALS: BIKE CULTURE
University of California, Riverside’s Sweeney Art Gallery is seeking proposals from artists, filmmakers, designers, performers, urban planners, interventionists, activists, and bike aficionados for Bike Culture, the gallery’s inaugural exhibition in its new location at UCR’s Culver Center of the Arts. Proposals may take the form of original work or documentation, 2-D, 3-D, video, and/or public programming and events, such as screenings, public actions, and performances that can take place indoors or outdoors. Preference is for work easily transportable or located in Southern California for pick up.
Exploring the effects of bikes on art and culture, Bike Culture includes customized bikes, bike designs, and artist projects that use the bicycle and human-powered machines as both metaphors and realizations for restructuring human habitats. In the past few years, bicycle activists, advocates, and aficionados have proven to be vociferous in their desire for reimagining the urban landscape in the U.S. It is a reflection of a shifting value system that looks towards alternate means of transportation, the promotion of healthy lifestyles, and a cultural shift from consumption to sustainability. Organized by UCR Sweeney Art Gallery.
The exhibition inaugurates UCR Sweeney Art Gallery’s new space in UCR’s Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts, both of which open to the public with a gala weekend, October 7-9, 2010. Sweeney and Culver are located on a downtown pedestrian wall, located next door to UCR’s California Museum of Photography. The exhibition coincides with Riverside’s inaugural 2010 Riverside Citrus Classic Bike Run on October 17, 2010.
Timeline
· Proposals received: June 25, 2010
· Checklist finalized: July 2010
· Latest work received: August 2010
· Installation dates: September 2010
· Exhibition Dates: October 7, 2010-January 1, 2011
· Reception date: Thursday, October 7, 6-8 PM, First Thursday Artswalk and first day of gala weekend opening for The Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts
Contact
Tyler Stallings, Director, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Tyler.stallings@ucr.edu, 951-827-1463
Partial list of contemporary individuals and groups under consideration:
Artists:
· Sierra Brown, http://sierragbrown.com/supercommute.html
· David Byrne, http://www.davidbyrne.com/art/books/bicycle_diaries/
· Margarita Cabrera, http://www.margaritacabrera.com/?cat=4
· Maurizio Cattelan, http://www.moca.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?id=336
· Krysten Cunningham, http://krystencunningham.com/Images.html
· Kevin Cyr, http://www.kevincyr.net/index.php?/project/camper-bike/
· Michel de Broin, http://www.micheldebroin.org/projects/spc/index.html
· Finishing School, http://www.finishing-school.net/drug-run.html
· Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser, http://www.koebberlingkaltwasser.de/cars-into-bicycles--the-californian-dream.html
· Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/#/artists/jun-nguyen-hatsushiba/
· Tom Sachs, http://www.tomsachs.org/work/waffle-bike
· Lee Tusman, http://leetusman.com/
Social activists, urban design, bike groups, new engineering:
· Bamboo bike design, http://www.calfeedesign.com/bamboo.htm
· Bicycle Kitchen, http://www.bicyclekitchen.com/
· BusCycle, http://buscycle.com/
· Center for Appropriate Transport (C.A.T.), http://www.catoregon.org/
· Cycledelics Riverside
· Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) competition vehicles, http://www.asme.org/Events/Contests/HPV/Human_Powered_Vehicle.cfm
· Lowrider and customized bikes
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Midnight Ridazz, http://www.midnightridazz.com/
Dance, movement:
· The Bicycle Ballet, http://www.allaboutaudiences.com/forums/topic.aspx?ID=66
· The Derailleurs, http://derailleurs.wordpress.com/
· Gacharinco!, http://www.candycranks.com/archives/3924
· The Spokes, http://thespokes.wordpress.com/about/
Music, concerts, sound:
· Colin Matthews, Alphabicycle Order, http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2009/May09/Matthews_Alphabicycle_CDHLL7515.htm
· Flib Baber, re-orchestration of the “Nutcracker” suite for bike parts, http://createdigitalmusic.com/2006/11/28/nutcracker-suite-played-exclusively-on-bicycle-parts/
· Mauricio Kagel, “Eine Brise”, http://www.mondayeveningconcerts.org/einebrise/
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