Bike Culture Exhibition Seeking Proposals: Sweeny Art Museum UCR

[Bicycle Bell Ensemble]

THIS SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY!


http://bicyclebellensemble.org/BikeCulture_RequestForProposals.pdf

UCR Sweeney Art Gallery is seeking proposals from artists, filmmakers,
designers, performers, urban planners, interventionists, activists,
and bike aficionados for an upcoming exhibition this fall that will
inaugurate its new gallery at UCR’s Culver Center of the Arts. Partial
information is listed below and complete information can be found in
the attached PDF.

Please forward, publish, or post.

Thank you!

-Tyler Stallings, Director, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery

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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.s...@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
· 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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Tyler Stallings
Director
UCR Sweeney Art Gallery
University of California, Riverside
3834 Main Street
Riverside, CA 92501

Main: 951-827-3755
Direct: 951-827-1463
Fax: 951-827-3798

Tyler.s...@ucr.edu

http://sweeney.ucr.edu

For other UCR ARTSblock happenings and exhibitions, see http://artsblock.ucr.edu
and
http://cmp.ucr.edu. UCR ARTSblock consists of three premier art
institutions—the California Museum of Photography, the Sweeney Art
Gallery, and the future Culver Center of the Arts (2010)—located on a
single city block in downtown Riverside to create an integrated arts
complex.
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