Initiatives, research and events where bicycles create positive social change
In this post, we look at how Meg Ulman, Patrick Jones, their two children (aged 11 and 2) and pet dog used an incredible 6,000km family bike tour up the east coast of Australia as a way of putting into action their ethical, environmental and social principles. This is the fifth and last instalment of …
Continue reading “Dissident Bicycles (Part 5): ’The Art of Free Travel’”
This is the fourth instalment of our August 5-part series written by Laura Fisher exploring how bicycles are used as a dissident object in contemporary art. The first looked at Ai Weiwei’s ‘Forever’, the second ‘Returnity’ by Elin Wikström and Anna Brag and the third was ‘Shedding Light’ from Tutti Arts Oz Asia Festival. Here …
Continue reading “Dissident Bicycles (Part 4): ’The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination’”
In this post, we continue our August 5-part series written by Laura Fisher exploring how bicycles are used as a dissident object in contemporary art. The first post looked at Ai Weiwei’s most iconic bicycle-based artworks ‘Forever’ and the second detailed the ‘reversed engineered’ bike project ‘Returnity’ by German art duo Elin Wikström and Anna …
Continue reading “Dissident Bicycles (Part 3): Oz Asia Festival ‘Shedding Light’”
This August, we have a 5-part series written by Laura Fisher exploring how bicycles are used as a dissident object in contemporary art. The first post looked at the importance and impact of one of Ai Weiwei’s most iconic bicycle-based artworks ‘Forever’. In this second instalment, Laura looks at the refashioned (literally) ‘reversed engineered’ bike …
Continue reading “Dissident Bicycles (Part 2): Brag & Wikström’s ‘Retunity’”
For August, we have a 5-part series written by Laura Fisher exploring how bicycles are used as a dissident object in contemporary art. Laura Fisher is a post-doctoral research fellow at Sydney College of the Arts (University of Sydney). Originally published in long format in Artlink, the five projects
This blog is dedicated to celebrating bicycles in their many forms. Art is a fundamental aspect of this passion, and I have shared numerous posts featuring artists who incorporate bikes in their work, such as: As someone who delights in discovering artists who use bikes in their creations, I was delighted to stumble upon an …
Continue reading “Artist Hilary Warren: Everyday bikes in Hoi An, Vietnam”
Working with bikes in creative ways is an ongoing theme for this blog. So is education. So it makes me particularly happy when I see these two passions combined. Previously, I’ve posted on a wide range of bike art projects, like: Dissident Bicycles (5 part art series) @Artcrank makes me happy The Adelaide Bike Art …