Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist and political activist. His sculpture, Forever Bicycles, was installed in Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto for Nuit Blanche in 2013. It is made up of 3144 bicycles.
I will let the pictures of it speak for themselves. It was an amazing thing to see.
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| The sculpture at a distance. |
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| 3144 real bicycle frames... |
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| All the wheels are real, laced up bicycle wheels. They also spin freely and it is possible to play with the sculpture a bit. |
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| Depending on how you look at it, the sculpture is a real eye bender. I was not the only one chuckling though at the irony of this particular sculpture being outside city hall, what with a mayor that openly hates cycling. |
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Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteDo you have a booth to display your art at nightshift http://nightshift.alternativesjournal.ca/? Cause you should?
If you don't do you have any prints could hang around the waterloobikes.ca booth?
Here's what I'm thinking:
* Two shelters on either side of a 'bicycle lounge'
* The one shelter will have a winter bike, touring bike and typical dutch bike
* The other side shelter will have new 'demo' bikes (folding, dutch cargo bike, extracycle, bike trailer)
* In the lounge I'm going to have couches set up (coffee, hot cider) with bike culture videos playing ... essentially looping stuff from streetfilms - http://www.streetfilms.org/
* I want to have speakers talk about essential bicycle maintenance, winter biking, bicycle touring (insert yourself here if you're able)
* Richard Garvey is going to play a few sets from his bicycle inspired albums
Let me know if you've got any ideas and if you're open to displaying some of your work either in a booth beside us or even amongst our stuff.
Thanks,
Graham